မေတ္တာ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali mettā, ultimately from Sanskrit मैत्री (maitrī). Doublet of မိတ် (mit).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: မျစ်တာ
• IPA^(key): /mjɪʔtà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: metta • ALA-LC: mettā • BGN/PCGN: myitta • Okell: myiʔta

Noun

မေတ္တာ • (metta)

1. love, kindness, affection, benevolence
2. (Buddhism) metta, one of the Ten Perfections

Derived terms

• မေတ္တာစာ (mettaca, noun)
• မေတ္တာပို့ (mettapui., verb)
• မေတ္တာရပ်ခံ (mettaraphkam, verb)

See also

• ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး (para.mihcaipa:)

References

• “မေတ္တာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali metta.

Noun

မေတ္တာ (mètta)

1. loving friend
2. friendship, love

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• mettā (Latin script)
• 𑀫𑁂𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• मेत्ता (Devanagari script)
• মেত্তা (Bengali script)
• මෙත‍්තා (Sinhalese script)
• မေတ္တႃ or မေတ်တႃ (Burmese script)
• เมตฺตา or เมตตา (Thai script)
• ᨾᩮᨲ᩠ᨲᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ເມຕ຺ຕາ or ເມຕຕາ (Lao script)
• មេត្តា (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄬𑄖𑄴𑄖𑄂 (Chakma script)

Noun

မေတ္တာ f

1. Burmese script form of mettā