વાણિયો
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Male Gujarati Vāṇiyās. (sense 1) 
વાણિયો (sense 3)
Gujarati
Etymology
Inherited from Old Gujarati वाणीउ (vāṇīu), वाणीडु (vāṇīḍu), from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀡𑀺𑀅𑀬 (vāṇiaya), from Sanskrit वाणिज (vāṇijá), from वणिज् (vaṇíj, “merchant, trader”).
Cognates
Pronunciation
- (Standard Gujarati) IPA(key): /ˈʋɑ.ɳi.jo/
- Rhymes: -o
- Hyphenation: વા‧ણિ‧યો
Noun
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
- વાણોતર (vāṇotar)
Descendants
- → Arabic: بُنْيَان (bunyān)
Further reading
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vāṇijá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670