yajur-veda

1. 1.

   a collection of sacrificial formulas and prayers

   BroaderSamhita

Questions about yajur-veda

What does yajur-veda mean?

yajur-veda means "a collection of sacrificial formulas and prayers".

How many syllables are in yajur-veda?

yajur-veda has 4 syllables and divides as ya-jur--ve-da under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is yajur-veda a common word?

yajur-veda is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.