different between meditation vs zazen

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

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.
3. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.

Related terms

• meditate
• meditative
• meditativeness
• premeditation

Translations

Anagrams

• tomatidine

Danish

Etymology

From meditere (“to meditate”), from Latin medit?r? (“to meditate, to think over, consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meditasjo?n/, [med?it?a??o??n]

Noun

meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)

1. meditation
2. pondering

Inflection

See also

• meditation on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?(?)?(??) (zazen), from ?(?) (za, “sitting”) + ?(??) (zen, “meditation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z???z?n/

Noun

zazen (usually uncountable, plural zazens)

1. A form of seated meditation in Zen Buddhism.
   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1226:

     They had sent out scouts to try and locate the original cave where the practice of Zazen was first initiated.

Translations

Anagrams

• zanze

Czech

Noun

zazen m

1. zazen

Japanese

Romanization

zazen

1. R?maji transcription of ???