Home › Words › T › trisulatrisulatrisula means A trident, seen as a religious symbol of Hinduism and Buddhism.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, trisula ranks #2,614 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Sanskrit त्रिशूल (triśūla).nounA trident, seen as a religious symbol of Hinduism and Buddhism.e.g.“It may be wondered, at first sight, that the innumerable texts left by Buddhism give us no positive information with regard to the meaning and origin of the trisula.” — 1894, Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, The Migration of Symbols:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).