shishya

English

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”).

Noun

shishya (plural shishyas)

  1. In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
    • 2018 August 20, Ruchir Joshi, “Free Spirit”, in India Today‎, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Living Media India Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 March 2022:
      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.

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