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vaishya

/ˈvaɪʃ(j)ə/noun

vaishya is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Vaishya” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-I-S-H-Y-A, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaishya is vaishyas.

What does vaishya mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Vaishya.

noun

as Vaishya
  1. 1

    The third caste of traditional Indian society, comprising merchants and landowners.

  2. 2

    A member of this caste.

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

How do you pronounce vaishya?

  • /ˈvaɪʃ(j)ə/

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

Forms of vaishya

  • vaishyas plural
  • vaiśya

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

How common is vaishya?

Vaishya appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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).

Vaishya in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense caste:

LanguageWords
Portuguesevaixá

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does vaishya come from?

Borrowed from Sanskrit वैश्य (vaiśya).

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