vaidya
/vɛːdjə
/(also vaid /vɛːd/)
noun
A practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine: vaids and physicians and surgeons were summoned, but they retired baffled...
- We refer snakebites to the vaids and the rural medical practitioners.
- His grandfather was an Ayurvedic vaid, and his father, though an allopath, acknowledges the benefits of homoeopathy and other systems.
- It is our good fortune that an increasing number of these vaidyas are practicing and available in the US for special needs.
Origin
From Hindi vaidyă.
- Manutius, Aldus
- manvantara
- manward
- man-way
- man-woman
- man-womanly
- man-worship
- manworth
- manwyrth
- Manx
- Manx cat
- Manx loaghtan
- Manx Loghtan
- Manxman
- manxome
- Manx shearwater
- Manx slates
- Manxwoman
- many
- many a little makes a mickle
- many a mickle makes a muckle
- Manyane
- Manyano
- many a one
- many a true word is spoken in jest