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.
- parkway
- parky
- Parl.
- parlance
- parlando
- parlatic
- parlatory
- parlay
- parle
- parlementaire
- parley
- parleyvoo
- parliament
- parliamental
- parliamentarian
- parliamentarianism
- parliamentarily
- parliamentariness
- parliamentarisation
- parliamentarism
- parliamentarization
- Parliament Army
- parliamentary
- parliamentary agent
- parliamentary army