Mitra

Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitra). Doublet of Mithra and Mithras.

English Wikipedia has articles on:

Mitra and Mitra-Varuna

Wikipedia Wikipedia

Mitra

1. A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.
   • 1989, Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam, “Bhairava's Royal Brahmanicide,”, in Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees, page 200:

     [In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position

2. (uncommon) A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.
   • 1963, Jørgen Læssøe, People of Ancient Assyria: Their Inscriptions and Correspondence, Routledge,, page 86:

     when about 1350 B.C. a treaty was concluded between the king of Mittanni [...] and the Hittite ruler [...], the former calls upon the gods Mitra, Indra, Varuna, and the Nâsatya as guarantors of his sworn obligations.

3. (rare) Misspelling of Iranian Mithra (Miθra).
   • 1923, John Nicol Farquhar, The Religious Quest of India, OUP, page 120:

     As the Avestan Mitra had a luminous character, so had the Vedic Mitra.

   • 2001, Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries, page 7:

     We cannot account for Roman Mithras in terms borrowed from Persian Mitra.

Transliteration of Bengali মিত্র (mitrô).

Mitra

1. A surname from Sanskrit.

• Armit, Tarim, amrit, matri-, timar, tirma

From Latin mitra, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtʀə/

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Mitra f (genitive Mitra, plural Mitren)

1. mitre (headgear worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries)
2. (heraldry) mitre

• “Mitra” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mitra” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• Rhymes: -itra
• Hyphenation: Mì‧tra

Mitra m

1. Mithras

• mitraico

• matri, ritma, tarmi, trami