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Borrowed fromSanskritआसन(ā́sana, āsaná,“sitting down”), fromआस्ते(ā́ste,“to sit down”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːsənə/

asana (pluralasanas)

1. Abodyposition, typically associated with the practice ofyoga.
   • 1978,Lawrence Durrell,Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published1992, page414:

     She had taught him several yogaasanas and now every morning he obediently performed them while he thought of her sitting somewhere out among the olives beyond the tower in the lotus pose which seemed to cost her no effort at all, intoning the Aum[…]

2. A moth of speciesMelese asana, of tropical South America.

• asana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From TagalogThisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

asana (pluralasanas)

1. Pterocarpus indicus (syn.Pterocarpus echinatus), found from southeastern Asia to northern Australia, theSolomon Islands, and theRyukyu Islands.
2. The wood of such trees, sometimes sold asPhilippine mahogany.

• (Pterocarpus indicus):angsana,Pterocarpus indicus f.echinatus

Alteration ofasnaThisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

asana

1. (India)Indian laurel,asna (Terminalia elliptica, syn.Terminalia tomentosa),Terminalia alata, of south and southeastern Asia.

• Category:en:Yoga poses

• Asana (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “asana”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC. (supplement)
• “asana”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

• Sana'a,Sanaa

Borrowed fromOld Javaneseāsana(“sitting;seat;dwelling;posture”), fromSanskritआसन(āsana,“seat, chair”).

• IPA^(key): /a.sa.nə/
• Hyphenation:a‧sa‧na

asana (Balinese scriptᬆᬲᬦ)

1. posture(of seating)

• “asana”, inBalinese–Indonesian Dictionary[Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province[Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali]

FromSanskritआसन(āsana).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑsɑnɑ/,[ˈɑ̝s̠ɑ̝nɑ̝]
• Rhymes:-ɑsɑnɑ
• Syllabification^(key):a‧sa‧na
• Hyphenation^(key):asa‧na

asana

1. (yoga)asana

• “asana”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2 July 2023

FromSanskritआसन(āsana).Doublet ofangsana.

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key): /aˈsana/[aˈsa.na]
• Rhymes:-ana
• Syllabification:a‧sa‧na

asana (pluralasana-asana)

1. asana, a body position

   Synonyms:pose,gerakan

2. seat,chair
3. sitting in peculiar posture according to the custom of devotees
4. (archaeology) related to definitions above

• “asana”, inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation –Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia,2016

Borrowed fromSanskritअसन,आशन(asana, āśana,“Indian laurel”).

• IPA^(key): /a.sa.na/
• Rhymes:-ana
• Homophones:āsana,aśana
• Hyphenation:a‧sa‧na

asana

1. (botany)Terminalia.

• Javanese:ꦱꦤ(sana)

• "asana" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson,Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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• IPA^(key): /aˈsa.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-ana
• Syllabification:a‧sa‧na

Learned borrowing fromSanskritआसन(āsana).

asana f

1. asana

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

asana m inan

1. genitivesingular ofasan

• asana inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• asana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed fromFrenchassainir orGermanassanieren.

a asana (third-person singular presentasanează,past participleasanat) 1st conjugation

1. todrain a swamp

• asana in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

• IPA^(key): /aˈsana/[aˈsa.na]
• Rhymes:-ana
• Syllabification:a‧sa‧na

asana m (pluralasanas)

1. asana

• “asana”, inDiccionario 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

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