Ayurveda
/aɪ.ʊəˈveɪ.də/
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Ayurveda noun: traditional Hindu alternative medicine, involving balancing three bodily humours of wind, bile, and phlegm.
Noun
Ayurveda (countable and uncountable, plural Ayurvedas)
- Traditional Hindu alternative medicine, involving balancing three bodily humours of wind, bile, and phlegm.
- From these are deduced the four Upavédas, namely, Ayush, Gándharva, Dhanush, and St'hápatya; the first of which, or Ayurvéda, was delivered to mankind by Brahma', Indra, Dhanwantari, and five other Deities ; and comprizes the theory of Disorders and Medicines, with the practical methods of curing...1788, Asiatic Society of Bengal, chapter XVIII, in Asiatic researches or transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and...
- A text on this form of medicine.
Ayurveda meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Ayurveda in Hindi
- traditional Hindu alternative medicine
- आयुर्वेद āyurved
Ayurveda in Tamil
- traditional Hindu alternative medicine
- ஆயுர்வேதம் āyurvētam
Ayurveda in Urdu
- traditional Hindu alternative medicine
- آیوروید āyurved
Ayurveda in Bengali
- Ayurveda
- আয়ুর্বেদ aẏurbed
More languagesFewer languages
- Ayurveda in Telugu
- ఆయుర్వేదము āyurvēdamu
- Ayurveda in Malayalam
- ആയുർവേദം āyuṟvēdaṁ
- Ayurveda in Gujarati
- આયુર્વેદ āyurved
- Ayurveda in Sanskrit
- आयुर्वेद āyurveda
- Ayurveda in Arabic
- أَيُورْفِيدَا ʔayūrfīdā
- Ayurveda in Indonesian
- ayurweda
- Ayurveda in Vietnamese
- Ayurveda
Forms of Ayurveda
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Origin of Ayurveda
Borrowed from Sanskrit आयुर्वेद (āyurveda).
Words formed from Ayurveda
Questions about Ayurveda
- What does Ayurveda mean?
- Ayurveda means traditional Hindu alternative medicine, involving balancing three bodily humours of wind, bile, and phlegm.
- What is Ayurveda in Hindi?
- Ayurveda in Hindi is आयुर्वेद (āyurved). See Ayurveda meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Ayurveda?
- Ayurveda is a noun.
- How do you pronounce Ayurveda?
- Ayurveda is pronounced /ɑjʊr.ved̪(ə)/ (India).
- What is the plural of Ayurveda?
- The plural of Ayurveda is Ayurvedas.
Words near Ayurveda in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ayurveda (page history and authors); আয়ুর্বেদ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ആയുർവേദം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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