Valmiki
noun
Valmiki is a noun meaning “A member of any of various Indian communities claiming descent from the poet Valmiki” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-L-M-I-K-I, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Valmiki is Valmikis.
What does Valmiki mean?
noun
- 1
A member of any of various Indian communities claiming descent from the poet Valmiki.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Valmiki?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sumxr-Valmiki.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Valmiki
- Valmikis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Valmiki?
Valmiki appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 Valmiki come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit वाल्मीकि (vālmīki)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).