Noun: shaman
| Singular | shaman |
| Plural | shamans; shamen |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: medicine man, medicine woman, priest-doctor, witch doctor
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Shepard: What rites did you go through to become chief shaman?
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Shaman: Becoming the shaman is excruciating. I passed through rites that made me wish to die. I carry the scars on my soul.
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Shaman: I must perform rites each dawn and dusk to keep me bound into our krogan nature. Our spirit is one of violence and death. I must be attuned to that. [2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:]
Nouns inflected like shaman
socman,
shaman,
yarraman,
Pokeyman,
femmefan,
Bosjesman,
Discman,
sokeman,
sockman,
zinefan,
drogman,
femme fan,
Trekfan,
Turkman,
Fennoman,
dragoman,
pokeyman,
eofan,
pan,
stfan, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schamane, from Russian шама́н (šamán), from Evenki шама̄н (şamān), сама̄н (samān), from Proto-Tungusic *samān. The Evenki word is possibly derived from the root ша- (şa-, “to know”); or else a loanword from Tocharian B ṣamāne (“monk”) or Chinese 沙門 /沙门 (shāmén, “Buddhist monk”), from Pali samaṇa from Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa, “ascetic, monk, devotee”), from श्रम (śrama, “weariness, exhaustion; labor, toil; etc.”), which would make this a doublet of sramana. See: German Nouns '
Schamane'.
Verbs referencing "shaman"
German Nouns
Schamane, Italian Nouns
sciamano, Portuguese Nouns
xamã.