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Vaisya

Definitions: Vaisya

Vaisya

Noun

1. A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes.

2. The third of the four main Hindu castes: the mercantile and professional caste.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Vaisya" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Note: Vaisya \Vais"ya\, noun. [Skr. vai[,c]ya.]. (Websters 1913)

Commercial Usage: Vaisya

DomainTitle

Books

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Specialty Definition: Vaisya

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

vaisya
A member of the third of the four major castes of traditional Indian society, comprising farmers, herders, merchants, and businessmen.
Check out http://www.vaisya.net/ for more information.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vaisya."

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Modern Translations: Vaisya

Language Translations for "vaisya"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

aisyavay.(various references)

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Rhyming with "Vaisya"

Words rhyming with "Vaisya" (pronounced 'Vais"ya'): Baya, Khaya, Maya, Piraya, Pitahaya, Playa, Sankhya. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vaisya

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-s-v-y"

-2 letters: vasa, visa.

-3 letters: aas, ais, ava, ays, ivy, say, vas, via, vis.

-4 letters: aa, ai, as, ay, is, si, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-s-v-y"
 

+2 letters: salivary.

 

+3 letters: advisably, giveaways.

 

+4 letters: abrasively.

 

+5 letters: anniversary, antislavery, causatively, vagariously, vascularity.

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Alternative Orthography: Vaisya


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 69 73 79 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .-    ..    ...    -.--.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01101001 01110011 01111001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#105 &#115 &#121 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0069 0073 0079 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

566775859167

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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