વાણિયો

Inherited from Old Gujarati वाणीउा, वाणीडु (vāṇīḍu), from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀡𑀺𑀅𑀬 (vāṇiaya), from Sanskrit वाणिज (vāṇijá), from वणिज् (vaṇíj, “merchant, trader”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑ.ɳɪ.jo/
• Rhymes: -jɔ
• Hyphenation: વા‧ણિ‧યો

વાણિયો • (vāṇiyo) m

1. Bania (a member of the Bania caste)
2. (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.’

3. dragonfly

• → Arabic: بُنْيَان (bunyān)
  • → Swahili: baniani
  • → Portuguese: baniano, baniane
    • → English: banyan
    • → Spanish: baniano

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vāṇijá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670