vihara
noun
vihara is a noun meaning “A Buddhist monastery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-H-A-R-A, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vihara is viharas.
What does vihara mean?
noun
- 1
A Buddhist monastery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vihara
- viharas plural
- vihare
- wihara
- wihare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vihara?
Vihara 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 vihara come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit विहार (vi-hāra).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).