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Pali
Noun बोधि f
Devanagari script form ofbodhi
Declension Declension table of "बोधि" (feminine)
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
Etymology 1 From Proto-Indo-Aryan *bawdʰiṣ Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰawdʰiš Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ( “ to be awake ” ) .
Noun बोधि • (bodhi ) stem , m
(also feminine gender) ( Buddhism , Jainism ) bodhi : perfect knowledge or wisdom (by which a man becomes a buddha or jina ), the illuminated or enlightened intellect (of a Buddha or jina) (Kathās. , Rājat. , Śatr. , Lalit. )
the tree of wisdom under which perfect wisdom is attained or under which a man becomes a buddha, the sacred fig-tree: Ficus religiosa Hcat. )
"wakener", a cock (L. )
name of a man (= Buddha in a former birth) (Jātakam. )
name of a mythical elephant (Lalit. )
name of a place (L. )
( in the plural ) R. )
Declension
Descendants Pali: bodhi
Prakrit: 𑀩𑁄𑀳𑀺 ( bohi ) Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀩𑁄𑀳𑀺 ( bohi )
Helu Prakrit:Dhivehi: ބޯ ( bō )
Sinhalese: බෝ ( bō ) Borrowed terms
→ Middle Chinese:菩提 MC | bojX| bjuwX| bok dzye| dejChinese: 菩提 ( pútí )
→ Japanese: 菩提 ( ぼだい, bodai ) → Korean: 보리 ( bori ) 菩提 → Vietnamese: bồ-đề 菩提 → Old Javanese: ( bodhi ) → Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer: ( vodhi ) Old Khmer: ( bodhi ) , ( vodhi ) → Sogdian:→ Old Uyghur:→ Middle Mongol:Classical Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠳᠢ ( bodi ) Mongolian:Mongolian script: ᠪᠣᠳᠢ ( bodi )
Cyrillic script: бодь ( bodʹ ) → Tamil: போதி ( pōti )
Adjective बोधि • (bodhi ) stem
learned , wise (Uṇ. IV, 117)
Declension
Etymology 2
Verb बोधि • (bodhí )( Vedic )
second-person singular aorist active imperative of भू ( bhū , “ to be, become ” )
Etymology 3
Verb बोधि • (bodhi )( Vedic )
second-person singular aorist active imperative of बुध् ( budh )
References Monier Williams (1899 ) “बोधि ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press , →OCLC 734 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985 ) “bodhi ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages , London: Oxford University Press, page 528