shishya

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi शिष्य (śiṣya, “disciple, student”), from Sanskrit शिष्य (śiṣya), from Sanskrit शास् (śās, “to teach, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁s- (“to teach, to indicate”).

noun

1. In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
   That winter night, everybody was drinking rum that we, the visiting party, had brought with us from Calcutta. One of the Babaji's young shishyas had got into a close and personal tangle with the liquor, drinking faster than everybody else, and the old guru was admonishing him about overdoing the Old Monk before sending him off to bed. 20 August 2018, Ruchir Joshi, “Free Spirit”, in India Today, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Living Media India Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-10