vaidya
noun
vaidya is a noun meaning “A practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-I-D-Y-A, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaidya is vaidyas.
What does vaidya mean?
noun
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IndiaA practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine.
noun
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Alternative form of Baidya.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vaidya
- vaidyas plural
- baidya
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vaidya?
Vaidya appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 vaidya come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit वैद्य (vaidya).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).