dhamma

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See also: dhammā

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Pali dhamma. Doublet of dharma and firm.

Noun

dhamma (countable and uncountable, plural dhammas)

  1. (Buddhism) The teachings of Buddha.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Pali dhamma.

Pronunciation

Noun

dhamma m (usually uncountable, plural dhammas)

  1. dhamma

Pali

FWOTD – 28 July 2016

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Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰérmos.

Pronunciation

Noun

dhamma m

  1. truth, righteousness
    • c. 50 BC, The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎, Colombo, 2009:
      5. න හි වෙරෙන වෙරාචී සම‍්මන‍්තීධ කුදාචනං 5
      අඞවරෙන ච සම‍්මන‍්ති එස ධම‍්මො සනන‍්තනො.
      5. Na hi verena verāni sammantīdha kudācanaṃ 5
      Averena ca sammanti esa dhammo sanantano.
      5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred,
      but are settled by love. This is an eternal truth.
      (literally, “5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred,
      but are settled by love. This truth is eternal.      ”)
      (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)
  2. doctrine, teachings
    1. (Buddhism) teachings of the Buddha
      • c. 300 BCE, Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada :
        Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā
  3. morality, goodness
  4. causal antecedent
    • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r‎ (PDF), page 20:
      ຈັກຂາຍະຕະນັງ ຈັກຂຸວິຎຎາຓະຘາຕຸຍາ ຕັງ
      ສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈຈະໂຍ,
      cakkhāyatanaṃ cakkhuviññāṇadhātuyā taṃ
      sampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo.
      The sense of sight is the cause of the factors of the eye-conciousness element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition.

Declension

Declension table of "dhamma" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)dhammodhammā
Accusative (second)dhammaṃdhamme
Instrumental (third)dhammenadhammehi or dhammebhi
Dative (fourth)dhammassa or dhammāya or dhammatthaṃdhammānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)dhammasmā or dhammamhā or dhammādhammehi or dhammebhi
Genitive (sixth)dhammassadhammānaṃ
Locative (seventh)dhammasmiṃ or dhammamhi or dhammedhammesu
Vocative (calling)dhammadhammā

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: dhamma
  • → French: dhamma
  • → Burmese: ဓမ္မ (dhamma.)

References

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