Vedda
noun
Vedda is a noun meaning “One of an indigenous people of Sri Lanka” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-D-D-A, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Vedda is Veddas.
What does Vedda mean?
noun
- 1
One of an indigenous people of Sri Lanka.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Vedda
- Veddas plural
- Beda
- Veddah
- Wedda
- Weddah
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Vedda?
Vedda appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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 Vedda come from?
From Sinhalese වැද්දා (wæddā, “hunter”), from Sanskrit वेति (veti, “hunt”), q.v.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).