buddha

See also: Buddha

English

Alternative forms

• Buddha

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bo͞odə, IPA^(key): /ˈbudə/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bo͝odə, IPA^(key): /ˈbʊdə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʊdə, -uːdə

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 [expletive] are you doing with a buddha as a lampstand?

3. (informal, uncountable) marijuana

Related terms

• Buddhahood
• Buddhism
• Buddhist

Translations

enlightened human

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

  Cantonese: 佛 (fat⁶)

  Mandarin: 佛 (zh) (fó), 佛陀 (zh) (fótuó)

  Min Dong: 佛 (hŭk)

  Min Nan: 佛 (zh-min-nan) (hu̍t)

• Esperanto: budho
• Finnish: buddha
• Galician: Buda m
• Georgian: ბუდა (buda)
• German: Buddha (de) m
• Greek: βούδας m (voúdas)
• Hebrew: בודהה‎ m (budha)
• Hungarian: buddha (hu)
• Irish: búda m
• Japanese: 仏陀 (ja) (Budda, Butsuda), 仏 (ja) (Butsu)
• Kazakh: будда (bwdda)
• Khmer: សម្ពុទ្ធ (km) (samput), ពុទ្ធ (km) (put)

• Korean: 부처 (ko) (bucheo), 불타 (bulta)
• Lao: ພຣະພຸດທະເຈົ້າ (pha ra phut tha chao)
• Maithili: बुद्धत्व
• Malayalam: ബുദ്ധൻ (ml) (buddhan)
• Marathi: बुद्ध m (buddha)
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: бурхан (mn) (burkhan)
• Persian: بودا‎ (fa) (budâ)
• Polish: budda (pl) m
• Portuguese: buda m
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: бу́дда (ru) m (búdda)
• Sanskrit: बुद्ध (sa) m (buddha)
• Sinhalese: සම්මා සම්බුදුවරු (sammā sambuduwaru)
• Spanish: Buda m
• Tamil: புத்தத்தன்மை (puttattaṉmai)
• Thai: พระพุทธเจ้า (th) (prá-pút-tá-jâao)
• Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས (sangs rgyas)
• Tok Pisin: buda
• Vietnamese: phật (vi) (佛), bụt (vi) (侼)
• Zhuang: baed

statue or image of Buddha

• Finnish: Buddhan kuva, buddhankuva

marijuana — see marijuana

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Czech

Pronunciation

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

Noun

buddha m anim

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

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	buddha	buddhové
genitive	buddhy	buddhů
dative	buddhovi	buddhům
accusative	buddhu	buddhy
vocative	buddho	buddhové
locative	buddhovi	buddzích
instrumental	buddhou	buddhy

Further reading

• buddha in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• buddha in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Finnish

Noun

buddha

1. buddha (enlightened human)

Declension

Inflection of buddha (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		buddha	buddhat
genitive		buddhan	buddhien
partitive		buddhaa	buddhia
illative		buddhaan	buddhiin
		singular	plural
nominative		buddha	buddhat
accusative	nom.	buddha	buddhat
	gen.	buddhan
genitive		buddhan	buddhien buddhainrare
partitive		buddhaa	buddhia
inessive		buddhassa	buddhissa
elative		buddhasta	buddhista
illative		buddhaan	buddhiin
adessive		buddhalla	buddhilla
ablative		buddhalta	buddhilta
allative		buddhalle	buddhille
essive		buddhana	buddhina
translative		buddhaksi	buddhiksi
instructive		—	buddhin
abessive		buddhatta	buddhitta
comitative		—	buddhineen

Possessive forms of buddha (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	buddhani	buddhamme
2nd person	buddhasi	buddhanne
3rd person	buddhansa

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

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
non-attributive possessive - singular	buddháé	buddháké
non-attributive possessive - plural	buddháéi	buddhákéi

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 scripts

• 𑀩𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (Brahmi script)
• बुद्ध (Devanagari script)
• বুদ্ধ (Bengali script)
• බුද‍්ධ (Sinhalese script)
• ဗုဒ္ဓ or ၿုၻ္ꩪ or ၿုၻ်ꩪ (Burmese script)
• พุทฺธ or พุทธะ (Thai script)
• ᨻᩩᨴ᩠ᨵ (Tai Tham script)
• ພຸທ຺ຘ or ພຸທຘະ or ພຸທທ຺ະ or ພຸດທະ (Lao script)
• ពុទ្ធ (Khmer script)

Etymology

From Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened”).

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, editor, Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

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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