buddha

See also: Buddha

English

Alternative forms

• Buddha

Pronunciation

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Noun

buddha (countable and uncountable, plural buddhas)

1. An enlightened human 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 human being

• Arabic: بُوذَا‏‎ m (būḏā)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• 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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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

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

Verb

buddha

1. past participle of bujjhati