Buddha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Pali Buddha (“the Awakened One, the Enlightened One”), from buddha (“awakened, enlightened”), from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”), past participle of बोधति (bodhati, “to wake, to awaken”). Distantly related to English bid and bede. Also cognate with Proto-Slavic *buditi (“to wake up”).
Inflected forms:
form: Buddhas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Budda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: Buddhah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Boodha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: buddha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any other person considered similarly enlightened.
pos: noun
examples: At this point, the Amidha Buddha probably has more worshippers than the Buddha himself does.
“Mind,” he began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes and without a lotus-flower - “Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this.”
gloss: Any other person considered similarly enlightened.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: There are some who consider Jesus a buddha, not least because Buddhism had spread to Judaea by the early 1st century.
gloss: Synonym of know-it-all or smartass, a person who imagines themselves smarter or wiser than they are.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
ironic
examples: Sam: Well, our first priority is to make sure the thieves don't strike again. It'll be tricky, 'cause these sorts of gangs rarely have just one target on the go. They've usually researched half a dozen possibilities, waiting for the most opportune circumstances on any of them.
Harry Woolf: He knows his onions, this lad, eh?
Gene Hunt: Oh, he's a right little smart-arse. So, what do you suggest, Buddha?
gloss: A statue or image of any Buddha.
pos: noun
examples: I love visiting the temple to see the Buddha.
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بُوذَا
roman: būḏā
lang: Azerbaijani
word: budda
lang: Bashkir
word: будда
roman: budda
lang: Burmese
word: ဗုဒ္ဓ
roman: buddha.
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 佛
roman: fat⁶
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 佛
roman: hŭk
lang: Chinese
word: 佛
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 佛
roman: fó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 佛陀
roman: fótuó
lang: Esperanto
word: budho
lang: Finnish
word: buddha
lang: French
word: bouddha
lang: Galician
word: Buda
lang: Georgian
word: ბუდა
roman: buda
lang: German
word: Buddha
lang: Greek
word: βούδας
roman: voúdas
lang: Hebrew
word: בודהה
roman: budha
lang: Hungarian
word: buddha
lang: Irish
word: búda
lang: Japanese
word: 仏陀
roman: Budda, Butsuda
lang: Japanese
word: 仏
roman: Butsu
lang: Kazakh
word: будда
roman: budda
lang: Khmer
word: សម្ពុទ្ធ
roman: samput
lang: Khmer
word: ពុទ្ធ
roman: put
lang: Korean
word: 부처
roman: bucheo
lang: Korean
word: 불타
roman: bulta
lang: Lao
word: ພຣະພຸດທະເຈົ້າ
roman: phra phut tha chao
lang: Maithili
word: बुद्धत्व
roman: buddhatva
lang: Malayalam
word: ബുദ്ധൻ
roman: buddhaṉ
lang: Marathi
word: बुद्ध
roman: buddha
lang: Mongolian
word: бурхан
roman: burxan
lang: Persian
word: بودا
roman: budâ
lang: Polish
word: budda
lang: Portuguese
word: buda
lang: Russian
word: бу́дда
roman: búdda
lang: Sanskrit
word: बुद्ध
roman: buddha
lang: Sinhalese
word: සම්මා සම්බුදුවරු
roman: sammā sambuduwaru
lang: Spanish
word: Buda
lang: Tamil
word: புத்தத்தன்மை
roman: puttattaṉmai
lang: Thai
word: พระพุทธเจ้า
roman: prá-pút-tá-jâao
lang: Tibetan
word: སངས་རྒྱས
lang: Tok Pisin
word: buda
lang: Vietnamese
word: phật
lang: Vietnamese
word: phật đà
lang: Vietnamese
word: phật tổ
lang: Vietnamese
word: bụt
lang: Zhuang
word: baed