မေတ္တာ
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Burmese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Pali mettā, ultimately from Sanskrit मैत्री (maitrī). Doublet of မိတ် (mit).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Phonetic respelling: မျစ်တာ
- IPA(key): /mjɪʔtà/
- Romanization: MLCTS: metta • ALA-LC: mettā • BGN/PCGN: myitta • Okell: myiʔta
Noun[edit]
မေတ္တာ • (metta)
- love, kindness, affection, benevolence
- (Buddhism) metta, one of the Ten Perfections
Derived terms[edit]
- မေတ္တာစာ (mettaca, noun)
- မေတ္တာပို့ (mettapui., verb)
- မေတ္တာရပ်ခံ (mettaraphkam, verb)
See also[edit]
- ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး (para.mihcaipa:)
References[edit]
- “မေတ္တာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
မေတ္တာ (mètta)
- loving friend
- friendship, love
Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative forms
Noun[edit]
မေတ္တာ f
- Burmese script form of mettā
Categories:
- Burmese terms borrowed from Pali
- Burmese terms derived from Pali
- Burmese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Burmese doublets
- Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Burmese lemmas
- Burmese nouns
- my:Buddhism
- Mon terms borrowed from Pali
- Mon terms derived from Pali
- Mon lemmas
- Mon nouns
- Pali lemmas
- Pali nouns
- Pali nouns in Burmese script
- Pali feminine nouns