Loading page
say it: suhm-SAH-ruh
samsara is a noun meaning "(Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth". It carries one recorded sense.
(Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth
Hinduism · Buddhism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for samsara come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.