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

References

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali metta.

Noun

မေတ္တာ (mètta)

  1. loving friend
  2. friendship, love

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

မေတ္တာ f

  1. Burmese script form of mettā
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