vata
/ˈvɑːtə/(also vatha)
noun
In Ayurvedic medicine: one of the three humours (or doshas) in the body, made up of the elements air and ether and responsible for movement and activity. Also attributive, especially designating a person in whom this humour is dominant, or the consequent physiological and psychological dispositions or characteristics.
- Sources translating the Sanskrit word typically use the term ‘wind’ to refer to this humour..
Origin
1950s. From Sanskrit vāta wind.
- repetitional
- repetitionary
- repetition choice
- repetition clock
- repetition compound
- repetition compulsion
- repetition device
- repetitionist
- repetition phenomenon
- repetition running
- repetition sermon
- repetition training
- repetition work
- repetitious
- repetitiously
- repetitiousness
- repetitive
- forget-me-not
- forgettable
- forgetter
- forgivable
- forgivably
- forgive
- forgiveness
- forgiver