buddha

See also: Buddha

English

Alternative forms

• Buddha

Pronunciation

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Noun

buddha (countable and uncountable, plural buddhas)

1. A human being who has become enlightened and therefore a divine being.
2. A statue or image of the Buddha.
   • 1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise

     What the fuck are you doing with a buddha as a lampstand?

3. (informal, uncountable) marijuana

Related terms

• Buddhahood
• Buddhism
• Buddhist

Translations

enlightened being

• Arabic: بُوذَا‎‎ m (būḏā)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓ (my) (buddha.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佛 (zh) (Fó), 佛陀 (zh) (Fótuó)

• Esperanto: budho
• Galician: Buda m
• Greek: βούδας m (voúdas)
• Hebrew: בודהה‎‎ m (budha)
• Hungarian: buddha (hu)
• Irish: búda m
• Japanese: 仏陀 (ja) (Budda, Butsuda), 仏 (ja) (Butsu)

• Khmer: សម្ពុទ្ធ (km) (samput), ពុទ្ធ (km) (put)
• Korean: 부처 (ko) (bucheo)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: бурхан (mn) (burhan)
• Persian: بودا‎‎ (fa) (budâ)
• Portuguese: buda m
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: бу́дда (ru) m (búdda)
• Sanskrit: बुद्ध (sa) (buddha)
• Spanish: Buda m
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས (sangs rgyas)

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Czech

Noun

buddha m

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuthɒ]
• Hyphenation: budd‧ha

Noun

buddha (plural buddhák)

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	buddha	buddhák
accusative	buddhát	buddhákat
dative	buddhának	buddháknak
instrumental	buddhával	buddhákkal
causal-final	buddháért	buddhákért
translative	buddhává	buddhákká
terminative	buddháig	buddhákig
essive-formal	buddhaként	buddhákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	buddhában	buddhákban
superessive	buddhán	buddhákon
adessive	buddhánál	buddháknál
illative	buddhába	buddhákba
sublative	buddhára	buddhákra
allative	buddhához	buddhákhoz
elative	buddhából	buddhákból
delative	buddháról	buddhákról
ablative	buddhától	buddháktól

Possessive forms of buddha
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	buddhám	buddháim
2nd person sing.	buddhád	buddháid
3rd person sing.	buddhája	buddhái
1st person plural	buddhánk	buddháink
2nd person plural	buddhátok	buddháitok
3rd person plural	buddhájuk	buddháik

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀩𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (Brahmi script)
• बुद्ध (Devanagari script)
• বুদ্ধ (Bengali script)
• බුද‍්ධ (Sinhalese script)
• ဗုဒ္ဓ (Burmese script)
• พุทฺธ (Thai script)
• ᨻᩩᨴ᩠ᨵ (Tai Tham script)
• ពុទ្ធ (Khmer script)

Proper noun

buddha m

1. (Buddhism) Buddha, the enlightened one.

Noun

buddha m

1. (Buddhism) buddha

Verb

buddha

1. past participle of bujjhati

Declension

Declension table of "buddha" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	buddho	buddhā
Accusative (second)	buddhaṃ	buddhe
Instrumental (third)	buddhena	buddhehi or buddhebhi
Dative (fourth)	buddhassa or buddhāya or buddhatthaṃ	buddhānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	buddhasmā or buddhamhā or buddhā	buddhehi or buddhebhi
Genitive (sixth)	buddhassa	buddhānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	buddhasmiṃ or buddhamhi or buddhe	buddhesu
Vocative (calling)	buddha	buddhā

Declension table of "buddhā" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	buddhā	buddhāyo or buddhā
Accusative (second)	buddhaṃ	buddhāyo or buddhā
Instrumental (third)	buddhāya	buddhāhi or buddhābhi
Dative (fourth)	buddhāya	buddhānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	buddhāya	buddhāhi or buddhābhi
Genitive (sixth)	buddhāya	buddhānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	buddhāya or buddhāyaṃ	buddhāsu
Vocative (calling)	buddhe	buddhāyo or buddhā

Declension table of "buddha" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	buddhaṃ	buddhāni
Accusative (second)	buddhaṃ	buddhāni
Instrumental (third)	buddhena	buddhehi or buddhebhi
Dative (fourth)	buddhassa or buddhāya or buddhatthaṃ	buddhānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	buddhasmā or buddhamhā or buddhā	buddhehi or buddhebhi
Genitive (sixth)	buddhassa	buddhānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	buddhasmiṃ or buddhamhi or buddhe	buddhesu
Vocative (calling)	buddha	buddhāni

References

buddha in Pali Text Society (1921–1925), Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead. (licensed under CC-BY-NC)

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Swedish

Noun

buddha c

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)
2. Buddha

Declension

Declension of buddha
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	buddha	buddhan	buddhor	buddhorna
Genitive	buddhas	buddhans	buddhors	buddhornas