Sami talked to the shaman.
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Shaman
//ˈʃɑːmən//
Synonyms for "shaman" (16 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (8)
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5 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
194 translations across 129 languages.
Akurio
1 entries- piyahi noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Amis
1 entries- cikawasay noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Apalaí
1 entries- pyaxi noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Arabic
3 entries- شَامَان noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- عَرَّاف noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- كَاهِن noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Armenian
1 entries- շաման noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Awetí
1 entries- paié noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Bakairí
1 entries- pyaji noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Basque
1 entries- xaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Belarusian
2 entries- зна́хар noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шама́н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Bengali
1 entries- ওঝা noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Bulgarian
2 entries- влъ́хва noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шама́н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Buryat
1 entries- бөө noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Canela
1 entries- caj noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Carijona
1 entries- hiyači noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Catalan
1 entries- xaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Chamicuro
1 entries- kapunutakajpola noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 巫 noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- 巫師 /巫师 noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- 巫醫 /巫医 noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- 薩滿 /萨满 noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Classical Mongolian
1 entries- ᠪᠥ᠋ᠭᠡ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Corsican
1 entries- mazzeru noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Czech
1 entries- šaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Danish
2 entries- shaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- vølve noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Daur
1 entries- yadgeng noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Dogrib
1 entries- díge'jon noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Dolgan
1 entries- ойун noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Dutch
4 entries- bonuman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- lukuman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- piai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- piaiman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Esperanto
2 entries- ŝamanino noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- ŝamano noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Estonian
1 entries- nõid noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Even
1 entries- хама̄н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Evenki
3 entries- сама̄н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- хама̄н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шама̄н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Eyak
1 entries- xiil noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Faroese
1 entries- shamanur noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Finnish
2 entries- poppamies noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- šamaani noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
French
4 entries- chaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- chamane noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- chamane noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- shaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Friulian
1 entries- benandant noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Galician
1 entries- xamán noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Georgian
1 entries- შამანი noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
German
2 entries- Schamane noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- Schamanin noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Greek
3 entries- ιατρομάντης noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- σαμάν noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- σαμάνος noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Greenlandic
1 entries- angakkoq noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Hebrew
2 entries- שמאן noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- שמאנית noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Hindi
2 entries- ओझा noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- शामन noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Hungarian
2 entries- sámán noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- táltos noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Icelandic
1 entries- völva noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Igbo
1 entries- dibị̀à noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Indonesian
1 entries- dukun noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐊᖓᑦᑯᖅ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Inuvialuktun
1 entries- angatkuq noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Italian
2 entries- sciamana noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- sciamano noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Japanese
1 entries- シャーマン noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Kalmyk
1 entries- бө noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Kanakanabu
1 entries- 'ʉrʉvʉ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Kari'na
1 entries- pyjai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Karok
1 entries- xus'úmaan noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Kazakh
1 entries- бақсы noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Ket
1 entries- сенаң noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Khmer
1 entries- គ្រូហ្ម noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Korean
2 entries- 무당 noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- 샤먼 noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Kuikúro
1 entries- hüati noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- бакшы noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шаман noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Latin
1 entries- samānus noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Lule Sami
1 entries- noajdde noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Maasai
1 entries- ɔl-aibóni noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Macedonian
1 entries- ша́ман noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Malay
1 entries- pawang noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠰᠠᠮᠠᠨ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Mapudungun
1 entries- machi noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Mongolian
2 entries- бөө noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- удган noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Nanai
1 entries- саман noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Nandi
1 entries- orkoiyo noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Narragansett
1 entries- powwáw noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Navajo
1 entries- hataałii noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Nootka
1 entries- ʔuštaqyuu noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Northeast Maidu
1 entries- jòmí noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Northern Sami
1 entries- noaidi noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sjaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- volve noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- sjaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- volve noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Old Norse
1 entries- vǫlva noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Orok
1 entries- сама noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Paiwan
1 entries- malada noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Pemon
1 entries- piyai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Persian
1 entries- شمن noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Polish
3 entries- szaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- szamanka noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- wołchw noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Portuguese
2 entries- xamane noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- xamã noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Puyuma
1 entries- temararamaw noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Pökoot
1 entries- werkoiyon noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Quechua
1 entries- jampiri noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Romanian
1 entries- șaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Russian
4 entries- волхв noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- зна́харь noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шама́н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шама́нка noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Saaroa
1 entries- 'ʉlʉvʉ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Selk'nam
1 entries- xon noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- krsnik noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- šaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- здухаћ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шаман noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Shipibo-Conibo
1 entries- unaya noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Shor
1 entries- қам noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Shoshone
1 entries- puhakantɨn noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Shuar
1 entries- uwishín noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Slovene
1 entries- volh noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кам noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Southern Sami
1 entries- nåejttie noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Spanish
4 entries- chamana noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- chamán noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- curandera noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- curandero noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Sranan Tongo
4 entries- bonuman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- dresiman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- lukuman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- obiaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Swedish
2 entries- schaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- völva noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tajik
2 entries- азоимхон noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шаман noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tanacross
1 entries- deyenenh noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Thai
4 entries- คนทรง noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- คนทรงเจ้า noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- คนทรงเจ้าเข้าผี noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- ร่างทรง noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tibetan
1 entries- ནུས་ཐུ་མ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tlingit
1 entries- íx̱t’ noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tofa
1 entries- һам noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Trió
1 entries- pïjai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tsou
1 entries- yoifo noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tundra Nenets
1 entries- тадебя noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Turkish
3 entries- bakşı noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- kam noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- şaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Turkmen
2 entries- porhan noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- şaman noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Tuvan
1 entries- хам noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Ukrainian
2 entries- знаха́р noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- шама́н noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Uyghur
1 entries- باخشى noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Uzbek
3 entries- baxshi noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- shomon noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- somon noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Vietnamese
2 entries- thầy pháp noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- thầy đồng noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Waiwai
1 entries- yaskomo noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Wayampi
1 entries- paye noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Wayana
1 entries- pïjai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
White Hmong
2 entries- neeb noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- txiv neeb noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Xhosa
1 entries- igqirha noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Yakut
1 entries- ойуун noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Yao (South America)
2 entries- peeai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
- peeiai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Ye'kwana
1 entries- jüwai noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Yup'ik
1 entries- angalkuq noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Yámana
1 entries- yekamush noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Zulu
1 entries- isangoma noun (spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
At the beginning of civilization, the crazy man, the shaman, ate grass on the river bank and pulled his hair out. Now today, the same madman blabbers on his cellphone about crypto-currency, buys a scone at Starbucks for $4.35, and his hair falls out on its own.
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The shaman performed a ritual.
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I'll meet with a local shaman.
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