yoga

Meaning

Noun

• Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.
• The tree Elaeocarpus joga (species).

Origin

• Borrowed from Sanskrit योग ("yoking, union"), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *yáwgas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwgas, from Proto-Indo-European, from *yewg- (whence also yoke).
• Borrowed from Chamorro yoga.