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English
Etymology
From Buddha + -ist .
Pronunciation
Adjective
Buddhist (comparative more Buddhist , superlative most Buddhist )
Of, relating to, or practicing Buddhism .
Derived terms
Translations
of, relating to, or practicing Buddhism
of, relating to a Buddhist, Buddhists
Noun
Buddhist (plural Buddhists )
A practitioner of the religion and philosophy of Buddhism .
A follower of the Indian religious and spiritual teacher , Buddha .
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
practitioner of Buddhism
Albanian: budist (sq) m
Arabic: بُوذِيّ (ar) m ( būḏiyy ) , بُوذِيَّة (ar) f ( būḏiyya )
Armenian: բուդդայական (hy) ( buddayakan )
Belarusian: буды́ст m ( budýst ) , буды́стка f ( budýstka )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Breton: boudaad m
Bulgarian: буди́ст m ( budíst ) , буди́стка f ( budístka )
Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓဝါဒီ (my) ( buddha.wadi )
Catalan: budista m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 佛教徒 (zh) ( fójiàotú )
Cornish: Bouddydh m , Bouddydhes f
Czech: buddhista (cs) f , buddhistka f
Danish: buddhist
Dutch: boeddhist (nl) m , boeddhiste f
Esperanto: budhano
Finnish: buddhalainen (fi)
French: bouddhiste (fr) m or f
Galician: budista m or f
German: Buddhist (de) m , Buddhistin (de) f , ( collective ) Buddhistentum n
Hebrew: בודהיסט m ( budhíst )
Hungarian: buddhista (hu)
Irish: Búdaí m
Italian: buddista (it) m
Japanese: 仏教徒 (ja) ( ぶっきょうと, bukkyōto )
Khmer: ពុទ្ធសាសនិក ( putthĕəʼ saasaʼnɨk ) , ពុទ្ធិក (km) ( putthɨk )
Korean: 불교도(佛敎徒) (ko) ( bulgyodo )
Lao: ພຸດທະມາມະກະ ( phut tha mā ma ka ) , ພຸດທະສາສນານິກະຊົນ ( phut tha sāt nā ni ka son )
Macedonian: буди́ст m ( budíst ) , буди́стка f ( budístka )
Marathi: बौद्ध m ( bauddha ) , बौद्धधर्मीय m ( bauddhadharmīy )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: буддын шашинтан ( buddyn šašintan )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: buddhist m
Nynorsk: buddhist m
Polish: buddyjka f , buddysta (pl) m , buddystka (pl) f
Portuguese: budista (pt) m or f
Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: budist (ro) m
Russian: будди́ст (ru) m ( buddíst ) , будди́стка (ru) f ( buddístka )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бу̀дист m , бу̀диста m , бу̀дисткиња f
Roman: bùdist (sh) m , bùdista (sh) m , bùdistkinja (sh) f
Slovak: budhista m , budhistka f , buddhista m , buddhistka f
Slovene: budist (sl) m , budistka f
Spanish: budista (es) m or f
Swahili: Mbudha
Swedish: buddhist (sv)
Thai: คนพุทธ ( kon-pút ) , พุทธมามกะ ( pút-tá-maa-má-gà ) , พุทธศาสนิกชน (th) ( pút-tá-sǎa-sà-ník-gà-chon )
Tibetan: ནང་པ ( nang pa )
Tuvan: сарыг шажын ( sarıg şajın ) , сарыг шажынның ( sarıg şajınnıñ ) , буддис ( buddis )
Ukrainian: будди́ст (uk) m ( buddýst ) , будди́стка (uk) f ( buddýstka )
Vietnamese: người Phật
Volapük: budan (vo)
Welsh: Bwdhydd m
Yiddish: בודהיסט m ( budhist )
German
Pronunciation
Noun
Buddhist m (weak , genitive Buddhisten , plural Buddhisten , feminine Buddhistin )
Buddhist ( male or of unspecified gender )
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
“Buddhist ” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Buddhist ” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Buddhist ” in Duden online