နမောတဿ

Pali edit

Buddha

Alternative forms edit

ᨶᨾᩮᩣᨲᩔ (namotassa) (Tai Tham script)
နမော (namo) တဿ (tassa) (Burmese script)

The one word forms are of limited geographical distribution.

Etymology edit

Univerbation of နမော (namo, “salutation”) +‎ တဿ (tassa, “to him”). The bond of the two parts is weak, and some would attribute it to vagaries in the new Pali habit of separating words with spaces, which is not a practice in the vernacular languages written in the same script.

Pronunciation edit

(Mon pronunciation)
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Contraction edit

နမောတဿ (namotassa)

salutation to him
နမောတဿ ဘဂဝတော အရဟတော သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓဿ
namotassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa

Honour to him, the Blessed One, the Exalted One, the fully Enlightened One

Usage notes edit

The manifestation of this univerbation is not a universal feature, and would be abnormal in the Latin script.