三さん昧まい

noun

samadhi; deep meditative concentration

Only with reading さんまい

Buddhist term for a state of intense, single-pointed concentration achieved through meditation. Read さんまい.

from Sanskrit

• 僧そう侶りょは座ざ禅ぜんによって三さん昧まいの境きょう地ちに入はいった。

  The monk entered a state of samadhi through zazen meditation.

noun, used as a suffix

being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content

Noun suffix, usually read ざんまい. Attaches to nouns or verb stems to express being completely immersed in an activity, often with a sense of indulgence or doing something freely.

• 休きゅう日じつは読どく書しょ三昧ざんまいで過すごした。

  I spent the holiday absorbed in reading.

• 温おん泉せん旅りょ行こうで美び食しょく三昧ざんまいを楽たのしんだ。

  On the hot spring trip, we indulged in gourmet food to our heart's content.

noun, used as a suffix

prone to; apt to

Noun suffix, usually read ざんまい. Indicates a tendency or habit, often with a negative nuance. Less common than sense 2.

• 彼かれは怠なまけ三昧ざんまいで、仕し事ごとがなかなか進すすまない。

  He is prone to laziness, so work doesn't progress easily.