နမောတဿ

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Pali

[edit]
Buddha

Alternative forms

[edit]

The one word forms are of limited geographical distribution.

Etymology

[edit]

Univerbation of နမော (namo, salutation) +‎ တဿ (tassa, to him). The bond of the two parts is weak, and some would attribute it to vagaries in the new Pali habit of separating words with spaces, which is not a practice in the vernacular languages written in the same script.

Pronunciation

[edit]

  • (Mon pronunciation)
    Audio:(file)

Contraction

[edit]

နမောတဿ (namotassa)

  1. salutation to him
    နမောတဿ ဘဂဝတော အရဟတော သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓဿ
    namotassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa
    Honour to him, the Blessed One, the Exalted One, the fully Enlightened One

Usage notes

[edit]

The manifestation of this univerbation is not a universal feature, and would be abnormal in the Latin script.