dhamma

See also: dhammā

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Pali dhamma. Doublet of dharma and firm.

Noun

dhamma (countable and uncountable, plural dhammas)

1. (Buddhism) The teachings of Buddha.

Anagrams

• Hammad, dammah

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali dhamma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.ma/

Noun

dhamma m (usually uncountable, plural dhammas)

1. dhamma

Pali

FWOTD – 28 July 2016

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀥𑀫𑁆𑀫 (Brahmi script)
• धम्म (Devanagari script)
• ধম্ম (Bengali script)
• ධම‍්ම (Sinhalese script)
• ဓမ္မ or ꩪမ္မ or ꩪမ်မ (Burmese script)
• ธมฺม or ธัมมะ (Thai script)
• ᨵᨾ᩠ᨾ (Tai Tham script)
• ຘມ຺ມ or ຘັມມະ or ທັມມະ or ທ຺ັມມະ (Lao script)
• ធម្ម (Khmer script)
• 𑄙𑄟𑄴𑄟 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰérmos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d̪ʱɐm.mɐ]

Noun

dhamma m

1. truth, righteousness
2. doctrine, teachings
   1. (Buddhism) teachings of the Buddha
      • c. 300 BCE, Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada :

        Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā […]

3. morality, goodness
4. causal antecedent
   • 2017 July 19, Rajan, Vinodh; Mitchell, Ben; Jansche, Martin; Brawer, Sascha, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r‎^[1] (PDF), page 20:

     ຈັກຂາຍະຕະນັງ ຈັກຂຸວິຎຎາຓະຘາຕຸຍາ ຕັງ
     ສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈຈະໂຍ,

     cakkhāyatanaṃ cakkhuviññāṇadhātuyā taṃ
     sampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo.

     The sense of sight is the cause of the factors of the eye-conciousness element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition.

Declension

Declension table of "dhamma" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	dhammo	dhammā
Accusative (second)	dhammaṃ	dhamme
Instrumental (third)	dhammena	dhammehi or dhammebhi
Dative (fourth)	dhammassa or dhammāya or dhammatthaṃ	dhammānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	dhammasmā or dhammamhā or dhammā	dhammehi or dhammebhi
Genitive (sixth)	dhammassa	dhammānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	dhammasmiṃ or dhammamhi or dhamme	dhammesu
Vocative (calling)	dhamma	dhammā

Derived terms

• dhammavicaya
• diṭṭhadhamma

Descendants

• → English: dhamma
• → French: dhamma
• → Burmese: ဓမ္မ (dhamma.)

References

• Pali Text Society (1921-1925), “dhamma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead