meditation

See also Meditation, and méditation

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Etymology

From Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

Noun

meditation (countable and uncountable; plural meditations)

1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation
2. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.

Related terms

• meditate
• meditative
• meditativeness
• premeditation

Translations

devotional contemplation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冥想 (cmn) (míngxiǎng), 沉思 (cmn) (chénsī)

• Czech: rozjímání (cs) n, meditace (cs) f
• Danish: meditation (da) c
• Dutch: meditatie (nl) f
• Finnish: mietiskely (fi), meditaatio (fi)
• French: méditation (fr) f
• Galician: meditación (gl) f
• German: Meditation (de) f
• Hungarian: meditáció (hu)

• Japanese: 瞑想 (ja) (めいそう, meisō), 思索 (ja) (しさく, shisaku), 黙想 (ja) (もくそう, mokusō)
• Korean: 명상 (ko) (myeongsang) (冥想 (ko))
• Malayalam: ധ്യാനം (ml) (dhyanam)
• Polish: medytacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: meditação (pt) f
• Russian: медитация (ru) (meditácija) f
• Spanish: meditación (es) f
• Tibetan: སྒོམ (bo) (sgom)
• Vietnamese: ngồi thiền (vi)

contemplative discourse

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉思 (cmn) (chénsī)

• Dutch: meditatie (nl) f, overpeinzing (nl) f
• Finnish: pohdinta (fi), pohdiskelu (fi)
• Hungarian: elmélkedés (hu)

• Malayalam: ചിന്ത (ml) (chintha)
• Polish: medytacja (pl) f
• Russian: медитация (ru) (meditácija) f, раздумье (ru) (razdúm’je) n, размышление (ru) (razmyšlénije) n

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 冥想 (míngxiǎng)
• Esperanto: meditato
• French: méditation (fr) f
• German: Meditation (de) f
• Greek: περισυλλογή (el) (perisyllogí) f

• Italian: meditazione (it) f
• Japanese: 黙想 (もくそう, mokusō), 思索
• Korean: 명상 (myeongsang)
• Persian: مراقبه
• Serbo-Croatian: meditacija (sh) f

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Danish

Etymology

From meditere (“to meditate”), from Latin meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /meditasjoːn/, [med̥itˢaˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)

1. meditation
2. pondering

Inflection

    Inflection of meditation

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	meditation	meditationen	meditationer	meditationerne
genitive	meditations	meditationens	meditationers	meditationernes

See also

• Meditation on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia