ဗြဟ္မစိုရ်တရား

Burmese

Etymology

Pali brahmacariya +‎ တရား (ta.ra:)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဗြ'မ'ဇိုရ်တ'ရား
• IPA^(key): /bjəməzòjtəjá/
• Romanization: MLCTS: brahma.cuirta.ra: • ALA-LC: brahmacuirʻtarāʺ • BGN/PCGN: byămăzoytăya: • Okell: byămăsouytăyà

Noun

ဗြဟ္မစိုရ်တရား • (brahma.cuirta.ra:)

1. (Buddhism) four cardinal virtues; Four Immeasurables; Four Perfect Virtues, i.e., loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity

Synonyms

• ဗြဟ္မဝိဟာရလေးပါး (brahma.wi.hara.le:pa:)
• အပ္ပမညာလေးပါး (appa.ma.nyale:pa:)

Hyponyms

• ကရုဏာ - compassion (ka.ru.na - compassion)
• မုဒိတာ - sympathetic joy (mu.di.ta - sympathetic joy)
• မေတ္တာ - loving-kindness (metta - loving-kindness)
• ဥပေက္ခါ - equanimity (u.pekhka - equanimity)

 

References

• “ဗြဟ္မစိုရ်တရား” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.