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ASANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asana mean? 

ASANA (noun)
  The noun ASANA has 1 sense:

1. (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)play

  Familiarity information: ASANA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ASANA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("asana" is a kind of...):

attitude; position; posture (the arrangement of the body and its limbs)

Domain category:

Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "asana"):

matsyendra ((Hinduism) a religious posture)


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