moksha
/ˈmoʊkʃə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A language of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family.
noun
In Indian philosophy and theology, the final liberation of the soul or consciousness from samsara and the bringing to an end of all the suffering involved in being subject to the cycle of reincarnation.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The more merit you earn, the more you are likely to abridge the number of reincarnations you have to go through to reach the kind of enlightened state which gets you to moksha."
- "It is one of the four key lessons of the Bhagavad-Gita: desire or lust; wealth; the desire for righteousness or dharma; and the final state of total liberation, or moksha."
Etymology
From Moksha мокша (mokša, “a Moksha person”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmoʊkʃə/
- British English: /ˈmɒkʃə/