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saññā
sañña
masc nom pl of sañña (adj); fem nom sg of sañña (adj); fem nom pl of sañña (adj); nt nom pl of sañña (adj); …
- sañña (adj): perceiving; having perception; regarding (as); lit. knowing together
- saññā (fem): perception; conception; recognition; third of the five aggregates; lit. knowing together
- saññā (fem): name; label; concept; idea; notion; impression; representation; symbol; lit. knowing together
- saññā (fem): sign; signal; gesture; lit. knowing together
- saññā (fem): (gram) grammatical term; technical term; definition; lit. knowing together
- saññā (fem): consciousness; awareness; lit. knowing together
Built from
- sam — prefix · together, with
The saṁ- prefix carries the concrete sense of bringing things into one unified act. Here it modifies the knowing, making perception a 'collected' or integrated awareness.
- jñā — root · know, perceive
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- 'to know'. The root appears in Sanskrit jñāna (knowledge), Latin noscere (to know), and English 'know'.
- ā — ending · feminine singular nominative
The feminine nominative singular ending, marking saññā as a feminine noun in the nominative case.
Etymology. From saṁ + √jñā, 'knowing together': the prefix saṁ (together, com-) combines with the root jñā (to know) to form the noun meaning 'the knowing that holds together', i.e. perception as the faculty that gathers sensory data into recognized wholes. Cognate with Sanskrit saṁjñā (cognition, name), and related to English 'cognition' and 'know' (from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- 'to know').