सनातन

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सनातन (sanātána).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /sə.nɑː.t̪ən/,

सनातन • (sanātan) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling سَناتَن)

1. existing from the old, immemorial, continuing, eternal

   Synonym: शाश्वत (śāśvat)

2. Hindu, relating to Hinduism; (more generally) Indic, Dharmic (relating to the Indic religions)

   सनातन धर्म ― sanātan dharm ― Hinduism (literally, “the eternal religion”)

   सनातन संस्कृति ― sanātan sanskŕti ― Indic culture (literally, “the eternal culture”)

• सनातनी (sanātanī, “a Hindu”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सनातन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 980
• “सनातन”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

From सना (sanā, “from the old”) +‎ -तन (-tana, “extending, till”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ.nɑː.tɐ́.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪ɐˈn̪ɑː.t̪ɐ.n̪ɐ/

सनातन • (sanātána) stem

1. existing from the old, eternal, perpetual, permanent, everlasting

   Synonym: शाश्वत (śāśvata)

   • c. 700 BCE, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
   • Udānavarga 14.11:

     न हि वैरेण वैराणि शाम्यन्तीह कदाचन ।
     क्षान्त्या वैराणि शाम्यन्त्येष धर्मः सनातनः ॥

     na hi vaireṇa vairāṇi śāmyantīha kadācana.
     kṣāntyā vairāṇi śāmyantyeṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ.

     For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred.
     Hatreds are settled by forbearance. This is an eternal law.

• Prakrit: 𑀲𑀡𑀸𑀢𑀡 (saṇātaṇa), 𑀲𑀡𑀸𑀬𑀡 (saṇāyaṇa)

• Monier Williams (1899) “सनातन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1141.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “सनातन”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1617