samsara

• saṃsāra (transliteration)

Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sʌmˈsɑɹə/

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samsara (countable and uncountable, plural samsaras)

1. (philosophy, religion) In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
   • 1957, S. Radhakrishnan, C. A. Moore, editors, A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Princeton Univ. Press, page 38:

     Until we are released from the law of karma and reach moksha or deliverance, we will be in samsara or the time process.

• reincarnation
• metempsychosis
• transmigration

• The Upanishads, abridged, translated and edited by Swami Nikhilananda, Harper Torchbooks, 1963, page 379.

• “samsara”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• asramas, assamar, samaras

• sansara

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).

• IPA^(key): /samˈsa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: sam‧sa‧ra

samsara f

1. (philosophy, religion) samsara

• samsara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French samsara.

samsara f (uncountable)

1. samsara

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Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).

• IPA^(key): /samsǎra/
• Hyphenation: sam‧sa‧ra

samsàra f (Cyrillic spelling самса̀ра)

1. (uncountable) samsara

samsara m (uncountable)

1. samsara

• “samsara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024