meditation

Etymology
From, from , from , the past participle of , itself from.

Noun

 * 1) A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.


 * 1) Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.


 * 1) A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
 * 2) A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
 * 3) Careful and thorough thought.
 * 1) Careful and thorough thought.

Translations
(瞻念)
 * Asturian: meditación
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 沈思/沉思,
 * Czech: rozjímání, meditace
 * Danish: meditation
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: meditado
 * Finnish:, meditaatio
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μελετήματα,, σύννοια
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: machnamh
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: толғаныс
 * Khmer:, , ,
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: meditātiō, meletemata
 * Macedonian: медитација
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: whakaaroarohanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Old English: smēaþ
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, , , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྒོམ
 * Tocharian B: ompalskoññe
 * Ukrainian: медита́ція
 * Vietnamese: tĩnh lự (靜慮), tư duy tu (思維修),


 * Bulgarian: медитация
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: machnamh
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:, ,

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) pondering
 * 1) pondering