meditation

See also: Meditation and méditation

English

Etymology

From Old French meditacion, 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”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛdɪˈteɪʃən/
Audio (RP) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)

A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
Careful and thorough thought.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration

Related terms

meditate
meditative
meditationist
meditativeness
premeditation

Translations

devotional contemplation

Asturian: meditación f
Bulgarian: размишление (bg) n (razmišlenie)
Catalan: meditació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 禪定／禅定 (zh) (chán dìng), 冥想 (zh) (míngxiǎng), 沈思 (zh), 沉思 (zh) (chénsī)
Czech: rozjímání n, meditace f
Danish: meditation c
Dutch: meditatie (nl) f
Esperanto: meditado
Finnish: mietiskely (fi), meditaatio
French: méditation (fr) f
Galician: meditación (gl) f
German: Meditation (de) f
Greek: περισυλλογή (el) f (perisyllogí)
Ancient: μελετήματα (meletḗmata), διαλογισμός (el) m (dialogismós), σύννοια f (súnnoia)
Hungarian: meditáció (hu)
Indonesian: meditasi (id), semadi (id)
Irish: machnamh m
Japanese: 瞑想 (ja) (めいそう, meisō), 思索 (ja) (しさく, shisaku), 黙想 (ja) (もくそう, mokusō)
Kazakh: толғаныс (tolğanys)
Khmer: ឈាន (km) (cʰien), ធ្យាន (km) (tyien), បរិវិតក្ក (km) (pa’re’vi’ta’ka’), បច្ចវេក្ខណៈ (km) (pacca’veekkʰa’na’)
Korean: 명상(冥想) (ko) (myeongsang)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: meditātiō f, meletemata
Malayalam: ധ്യാനം (ml) (dhyānaṃ)
Maori: whakaaroarohanga
Mongolian: бясалгал (mn) (bjasalgal)
Persian: خلسه‎ (fa) (xalse), مدیتیشن‎ (fa) (mediteyshen)
Polish: medytacja (pl) f
Portuguese: meditação (pt) f
Russian: медита́ция (ru) f (meditácija)
Sanskrit: ध्यान (sa) n (dhyāna), धी (sa) f (dhī), योग (sa) (yoga), समाधि (sa) (samādhi), ध्यानयोग (sa) (dhyānayoga)
Spanish: meditación (es) f
Swedish: meditation (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: སྒོམ (sgom)
Tocharian B: ompalskoññe
Ukrainian: медита́ція f (medytácija)
Vietnamese: thiền định (vi)

tĩnh lự (vi), tư duy tu (vi)

contemplative discourse

Bulgarian: медитация f (meditacija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沉思 (zh) (chénsī)
Dutch: meditatie (nl) f, overpeinzing (nl) f
Finnish: pohdinta (fi), pohdiskelu (fi)
Greek: διαλογισμός (el) m (dialogismós), στοχασμός (el) m (stochasmós), στοχασμός (el) m (stochasmós)
Hungarian: elmélkedés (hu)
Irish: machnamh m
Malayalam: ചിന്ത (ml) (cinta)
Polish: medytacja (pl) f
Russian: медита́ция (ru) f (meditácija), разду́мье (ru) n (razdúmʹje), размышле́ние (ru) n (razmyšlénije)
Sanskrit: ध्यान (sa) (dhyāna), समाधि (sa) (samādhi), चिन्ता (sa) (cintā)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} meditato
French: ^{(please verify)} méditation (fr) f
German: ^{(please verify)} Meditation (de) f
Italian: ^{(please verify)} meditazione (it) f
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 黙想 (ja) ^{(please verify)} もくそう mokusō, ^{(please verify)} 思索 (ja)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 명상(冥想) (ko) (myeongsang)
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 冥想 (zh) (míngxiǎng)
Persian: ^{(please verify)} مراقبه‎ (fa)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} meditacija (sh) f

Anagrams

tomatidine

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meditasjoːn/, [med̥itˢaˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)

meditation
pondering

Inflection

Declension of meditation

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