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shishya

shishya noun: in Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.

Noun

shishya (plural shishyas)

  1. In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
    • That winter night, everybody was drinking rum that we, the visiting party, had brought with us from Calcutta. One of the Babaji's young shishyas had got into a close and personal tangle with the liquor, drinking faster than everybody else, and the old guru was admonishing him about overdoing the...2018 August 20, Ruchir Joshi, “Free Spirit”, in India Today, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Living Media India Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022

Forms of shishya

pluralshishyas

Origin of shishya

Borrowed from Hindi शिष्य (śiṣya, “disciple, student”), from Sanskrit शिष्य (śiṣya), from Sanskrit शास् (śās, “to teach, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁s- (“to teach, to indicate”).

Questions about shishya

What does shishya mean?
Shishya means in Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
What part of speech is shishya?
Shishya is a noun.
What is the plural of shishya?
The plural of shishya is shishyas.

Words near shishya in the dictionary

  1. shishkebobs
  2. shishmahal
  3. shishmahals
  4. shisho
  5. Shishou
  6. shishya
  7. shishyas
  8. Shisler
  9. Shislers
  10. shiso
  11. shiss

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