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trishna

/ˈtɹɪʃnə/noun

trishna is a noun meaning “The Vedic concept of craving or lust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-S-H-N-A, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of trishna is trishnas.

What does trishna mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The Vedic concept of craving or lust.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce trishna?

  • /ˈtɹɪʃnə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of trishna

  • trishnas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is trishna?

Trishna appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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 trishna come from?

From Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).