羅摩衍那

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (羅摩衍那)		羅	摩	衍	那
simp. (罗摩衍那)		罗	摩	衍	那

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit रामायण (rāmāyaṇa).

Watanabe Kaigyoku (1907) attested that the oldest mention of "Ramayana" in Chinese Buddhist writing is in a translation of Mahāvibhāṣā by 7th-century monk Xuanzang (aka Yuan Chwang), as 羅摩衍拏 (MC la ma yenX nrae).^[1]

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Luómóyǎnnà

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄛˊ ㄧㄢˇ ㄋㄚˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Luómóyǎnnà
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄛˊ ㄧㄢˇ ㄋㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Luómóyǎnnà
  - Wade–Giles: Lo²-mo²-yen³-na⁴
  - Yale: Lwó-mwó-yǎn-nà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Luomoyeannah
  - Palladius: Ломояньна (Lomojanʹna)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ³⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹/

Proper noun

羅摩衍那

(Hinduism) Ramayana

References

^ Watanabe, K. (1907 January) “The Oldest Record of the Ramayana in a Chinese Buddhist Writing”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press, page 99

[1] Watanabe, K. (1907 January) “The Oldest Record of the Ramayana in a Chinese Buddhist Writing”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press, page 99

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