buddha

• Buddha

• (General American) enPR: bo͞odə, IPA^(key): /ˈbudə/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bo͝odə, IPA^(key): /ˈbʊdə/

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• Rhymes: -ʊdə, -uːdə

buddha (countable and uncountable, plural buddhas)

 

1. A human being who has become enlightened (in Buddhism).
2. A statue or image of the Buddha.
   • 1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise:

     What the [expletive] are you doing with a buddha as a lampstand?

3. (US hip-hop slang) marijuana
   • 1994, The Notorious B.I.G. (lyrics and music), “Everyday Struggle”, in Ready to Die‎^[1]:

     I know how it feel to wake up fucked up
     Pockets broke as hell, another rock to sell
     People look at you like you's the user
     Sellin' drugs to all the losers, mad buddha abuser

   • 1994, Nas (lyrics and music), “It Ain't Hard to Tell”, in Illmatic‎^[2]:

     It ain't hard to tell, I excel, then prevail
     The mic is contacted, I attract clientele
     My mic check is life or death, breathin' a sniper's breath
     I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps

• Buddhahood
• Buddhism
• Buddhist

• IPA^(key): [ˈbudɦa]
• Hyphenation: budd‧ha

buddha m anim

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)

• “buddha”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “buddha”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

< Buddha

• IPA^(key): /ˈbud(ː)hɑ/, [ˈbud.(d)hɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ud(ː)hɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): budd‧ha

buddha

1. buddha (enlightened human)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuthɒ]
• Hyphenation: budd‧ha
• Rhymes: -hɒ

buddha (plural buddhák)

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)

Borrowed from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “enlightened, awakened”).

buddha

1. (Buddhism) Buddha, buddha:
   1. a human being who has become enlightened.
   2. a statue or image of the Buddha.
2. Buddhist
3. Buddhist clergy

buddha

1. Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepali prince and Indian philosopher and teacher who founded Buddhism.

• > Javanese: ꦧꦸꦢ (buda) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬩᬸᬤ᭄ᬥ (buda)

• "buddha" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “enlightened, awakened”).

buddha m

1. (Buddhism) Buddha, the enlightened one

buddha m

1. (Buddhism) buddha

buddha

1. past participle of bujjhati

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

buddha c

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)
2. Buddha