နမောတဿ

Pali

Buddha

Alternative forms

• ᨶᨾᩮᩣᨲᩔ (namotassa) (Tai Tham script)
• နမော (namo) တဿ (tassa) (Burmese script)

The one word forms are of limited geographical distribution.

Etymology

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

• (Mon pronunciation)

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Contraction

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

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