sadhu

See also: sādhu and Sadhu

English

3 sadhus in Nepal

Etymology

From Sanskrit साधु (sādhú, “good; good man, holy man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːduː/, /ˈsæduː/, /-djuː/
• Rhymes: -ɑːduː

Noun

sadhu (plural sadhus)

1. (Hinduism) An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty).
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Qutet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 994:

     It was clad in white in the manner of an Indian sadu or holy man, and it was walking barefoot on the grubby pavements.

   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances, obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location, carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me, and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu.

Translations

ascetic or practitioner of yoga

• Assamese: সাধু (xadhu)
• Bengali: সাধু (bn) (śadhu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苦行くぎょう僧そう (zh) (kǔxíngsēng)

• Esperanto: saduo
• Finnish: sadhu
• Gujarati: સાધુ (sādhu)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಸಾಧು (kn) (sādhu)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: साधू m (sādhū)
• Nepali: साधु (sādhu)
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: sadhu (pl) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: са́дху (ru) m (sádxu)
• Sanskrit: साधु (sa) (sādhu)
• Tamil: சாதுக்கள் (cātukkaḷ)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} సాధు (te) (sādhu)

Further reading

• sadhu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dahus, Sudha, dhaus