Other forms: yogis
A yogi is somebody far advanced in the practice of yoga. Study under a yogi.
The word implies mastery of the whole discipline rather than of the postures alone. A yogi in the traditional sense is closer to a monk than to a teacher of exercise.
1nounyogiSomebody far advanced in the practice of yoga.
“The yogi had lived in the same room for forty years.”
yogi is a person.
Sanskrit yogin comes from the root yuj, to join or yoke, which also gives the word yoga.
Proto-Indo-European
*yugóm
Sanskrit
योगिन्
Hindi
योगी
English, today
yogi
Built from
From Hindi योगी, from Sanskrit योगिन्, from the verbal root yuj (class 7 present युनक्ति (“to connect”)), from Proto-Indo-European yugóm.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA