Buddha
Appearance
See also: buddha
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Pali Buddha (“the Awakened One, the Enlightened One”), from buddha (“awakened, enlightened”), from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”), past participle of बोधति (bodhati, “to wake, to awaken”). Distantly related to English bid and bede. Also cognate with Proto-Slavic *buditi (“to wake up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bo͝odə, IPA(key): /ˈbʊdə/
- (General American) enPR: bo͞odə, IPA(key): /ˈbudə/
Audio (US): (file) - IPA(key): /ˈbʊdːʰə/ (only in technical contexts) – approximation of Hindustani [ˈbʊdːʱə], which features a geminate ‘d’ and breathy voice on the second ‘d’, neither of which is idiomatic to English
- Rhymes: -ʊdə, -uːdə
- Homophone: Buda (one pronunciation of each word)
Proper noun
[edit]the Buddha
- Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepali prince and Indian philosopher and teacher who founded Buddhism.
Usage notes
[edit]Properly preceded by the definite article the, although frequently treated as a proper name rather than a title.
Synonyms
[edit]- Siddhartha, Siddhartha Gautama, Gautama Buddha, Sakyamuni, Sakyamuni Buddha; Vishnu (within Hinduism)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]spiritual and philosophical teacher
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Noun
[edit]Buddha (plural Buddhas)
- Any other person considered similarly enlightened in Buddhist contexts.
- At this point, the Amidha Buddha probably has more worshippers than the Buddha himself does.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:
- “Mind,” he began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes and without a lotus-flower - “Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this.”
- Any other person considered similarly enlightened in other contexts.
- There are some who consider Jesus a buddha, not least because Buddhism had spread to Judaea by the early 1st century.
- (figurative, ironic) Synonym of know-it-all or smartass, a person who imagines themselves smarter or wiser than they are.
- 2007 February 20, Chris Chibnall, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 2:
- Sam: Well, our first priority is to make sure the thieves don't strike again. It'll be tricky, 'cause these sorts of gangs rarely have just one target on the go. They've usually researched half a dozen possibilities, waiting for the most opportune circumstances on any of them.
Harry Woolf: He knows his onions, this lad, eh?
Gene Hunt: Oh, he's a right little smart-arse. So, what do you suggest, Buddha?
- A statue or image of any Buddha.
- I love visiting the temple to see the Buddha.
Derived terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Buddha
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Buddha (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Buddha | — | |
genitive | Buddhan | — | |
partitive | Buddhaa | — | |
illative | Buddhaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Buddha | — | |
accusative | nom. | Buddha | — |
gen. | Buddhan | ||
genitive | Buddhan | — | |
partitive | Buddhaa | — | |
inessive | Buddhassa | — | |
elative | Buddhasta | — | |
illative | Buddhaan | — | |
adessive | Buddhalla | — | |
ablative | Buddhalta | — | |
allative | Buddhalle | — | |
essive | Buddhana | — | |
translative | Buddhaksi | — | |
abessive | Buddhatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]compounds
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Buddha m (strong, genitive Buddhas, plural Buddhas)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Buddha [masculine, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- “Buddha (Abbild, Statue)” in Duden online
- “Buddha (Ehrentitel)” in Duden online
- “Buddha” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Buddha m (invariable)
- Alternative spelling of Budda
Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative scripts
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “enlightened, awakened”)
Proper noun
[edit]Buddha m
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: بُوذَا (būḏā)
- → Bactrian: Βοδδο (Boddo), Βουδο (Boudo)
- → Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓ (buddha.)
- → English: Buddha
- → Esperanto: Budho
- → French: Bouddha
- → Greek: Βούδας (Voúdas)
- → Irish: Búda
- → Indonesian: Buddha
- Malay: Buddha
- → Italian: Budda
- → Japanese: 仏陀 (Budda)
- → Khmer: ព្រះពុទ្ធ (prĕəh put), ពុទ្ធ (put)
- → Korean: 부처 (bucheo)
- → Lao: ພຸດທະ (phut tha), ພຸດ (phut)
- → Mongolian: Будда (Budda)
- → Russian: Бу́дда (Búdda)
- → Sogdian: [script needed] (bwt)
- → Thai: พระพุทธเจ้า (prá-pút-tá-jâao), พุทธ (pút)
- → Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས (sangs rgyas) (calque)
- → Ukrainian: Бу́дда (Búdda)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰewdʰ-
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-Aryan
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English terms derived from the Sanskrit root बुध्
- English terms borrowed from Pali
- English learned borrowings from Pali
- English terms derived from Pali
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʊdə
- Rhymes:English/ʊdə/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/uːdə
- Rhymes:English/uːdə/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with optional capitalization
- en:Buddhas
- en:Buddhism
- en:Individuals
- Finnish terms derived from Pali
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ud(ː)hɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ud(ː)hɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish koira-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/udda
- Rhymes:Italian/udda/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Pali terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Pali terms derived from Sanskrit
- Pali lemmas
- Pali proper nouns
- Pali proper nouns in Latin script
- Pali masculine nouns
- pi:Buddhism