မေတ္တာ

Burmese edit

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မေတ္တာ

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Pali mettā, ultimately from Sanskrit मैत्री (maitrī). Doublet of မိတ် (mit).

Pronunciation edit

Phonetic respelling: မျစ်တာ
IPA^(key): /mjɪʔtà/
Romanization: MLCTS: metta • ALA-LC: mettā • BGN/PCGN: myitta • Okell: myiʔta

Noun edit

မေတ္တာ • (metta)

love, kindness, affection, benevolence
(Buddhism) metta, one of the Ten Perfections

Derived terms edit

မေတ္တာစာ (mettaca, noun)
မေတ္တာပို့ (mettapui., verb)
မေတ္တာရပ်ခံ (mettaraphkam, verb)

See also edit

ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး (para.mihcaipa:)

References edit

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

Mon edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Pali metta.

Noun edit

မေတ္တာ (mètta)

loving friend
friendship, love

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

mettā (Latin script)
𑀫𑁂𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸 (Brahmi script)
मेत्ता (Devanagari script)
মেত্তা (Bengali script)
මෙත‍්තා (Sinhalese script)
မေတ္တႃ or မေတ်တႃ (Burmese script)
เมตฺตา or เมตตา (Thai script)
ᨾᩮᨲ᩠ᨲᩣ (Tai Tham script)
ເມຕ຺ຕາ or ເມຕຕາ (Lao script)
មេត្តា (Khmer script)
𑄟𑄬𑄖𑄴𑄖𑄂 (Chakma script)

Noun edit

မေတ္တာ f

Burmese script form of mettā

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