waidya

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वैद्य (vaidya, “physician, doctor; expert”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wai̯.dja/
• Rhymes: -dja
• Hyphenation: wai‧dya

Noun

waidya

1. physician, doctor
2. medicine

   Synonyms: jampi, jampyan, oṣadha, oṣadhi, tamba, tambā, uṣadha, uwat, waidya, wedya

Alternative forms

• wedya

Derived terms

• cāturwaidya
• oṣaḍhawaidya
• waidyawedika
• wiwaidya

 

Further reading

• "waidya" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.