Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shishya

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

Syllables: shishya
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.

Example Sentences

"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 Old Monk before sending him off to bed."

Etymology

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”).

Origin

Source language: Sanskrit

Word Breakdown

Root: शिष्य, शास्, *ḱeh₁s-

Inflected Forms

shishyas (plural)

Questions

What does shishya mean?: In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
Where does shishya come from?: It is traced to Sanskrit.

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