brahma

Other forms of brahma

plural

brahmas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brahma

What does brahma mean?

brahma means "the Creator; one of the three major deities in the later Hindu pantheon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brahma?

brahma has 2 syllables: brah-ma. The stress falls on "brah".

What is another word for brahma?

Close synonyms include Brahman, Brahmin, Bos indicus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brahma a common word?

brahma is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.