gyani
noun, adjective
gyani is a noun meaning “A knowledgeable or wise person; sage, saint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-Y-A-N-I, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gyani is gyanis.
What does gyani mean?
noun
- 1
A knowledgeable or wise person; sage, saint.
- 2
Alternative spelling of giani.
adjective
- 1
Knowledgeable, wise, intelligent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gyani
- gyanis plural
- more gyani comparative
- most gyani superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gyani?
Gyani appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does gyani come from?
Borrowed from Hindi ज्ञानी (jñānī), from Sanskrit ज्ञानी (jñānī). Distantly related to know.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).