વાણિયો
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Gujarati
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Gujarati वाणीउा, वाणीडु (vāṇīḍu), from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀡𑀺𑀅𑀬 (vāṇiaya), from Sanskrit वाणिज (vāṇijá), from वणिज् (vaṇíj, “merchant, trader”).
Cognates
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Gujarati) IPA(key): /ˈʋɑ.ɳɪ.jo/
- Rhymes: -jɔ
- Hyphenation: વા‧ણિ‧યો
Noun
[edit]વાણિયો • (vāṇiyo) m
- Bania (a member of the Bania caste)
- (by extension, especially Hindu) merchant, trader
- 2007, Shamal Bhatt, Hasu Yajnik, Rūpāvatī, page 29:
- યોડું આગળ ચાલ્યો કે તળાવ આવ્યું ! એનાં કાંઠે બેઠેલો ઘરો વાણિયો બોલ્યો: હું બીજાપુરનો વહાણવટી વાણિયો છું પણ વાંઝિયો છું.
- yoḍũ āgaḷ cālyo ke taḷāv āvyũ ! enā̃ kā̃ṭhe beṭhelo gharo vāṇiyo bolyo: hũ bījāpurno vahāṇavṭī vāṇiyo chũ paṇ vā̃jhiyo chũ.
- As he walked further he came across a pond! The merchant sat on the bank and said: ‘I am Bijapur’s overseas merchant, yet I am unsuccessful.’
- dragonfly
Related terms
[edit]- વાણોતર (vāṇotar)
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: بُنْيَان (bunyān)
Further reading
[edit]- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vāṇijá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670
Categories:
- Gujarati terms inherited from Old Gujarati
- Gujarati terms derived from Old Gujarati
- Gujarati terms inherited from Prakrit
- Gujarati terms derived from Prakrit
- Gujarati terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Gujarati terms derived from Sanskrit
- Gujarati terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Gujarati/jɔ
- Rhymes:Gujarati/jɔ/3 syllables
- Gujarati lemmas
- Gujarati nouns
- Gujarati masculine nouns
- Gujarati terms with quotations
- gu:Dragonflies and damselflies