Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shugenja

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: shugen-ja
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A practitioner of Shugendō.

Example Sentences

"Chanting the mantra of the fire kami, they called to the blaze, summoning the heart of each flickering flame to life. Fire danced, arching higher above the street. It pulsed with the sound of the shugenjas’ voices."
"But Ryōtora had definitely moved a shintai during the makeshift festival – and it must have been Saiun-nushi’s, because Sekken couldn’t imagine the shugenja could call a kami into a foreign vessel without noticing."

Etymology

From Japanese 修験者 (shugenja).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 修験者

Inflected Forms

shugenjas (plural)

Questions

What does shugenja mean?: A practitioner of Shugendō.
Where does shugenja come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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