vedanga

1. 1.

   Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology

   BroaderVedic literature

Other forms of vedanga

plural

vedangas·

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 vedanga

What does vedanga mean?

vedanga means "Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology".

How many syllables are in vedanga?

vedanga has 3 syllables: ve-dan-ga. The stress falls on "ve".

Is vedanga a common word?

vedanga 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.