धर्म

Sanskrit

noun
Definitions
  • morality, virtue, moral code, good deed, good works
  • that which is established or firm, steadfast decree, statute, ordinance, law
  • usage, practice, customary observance or prescribed conduct, duty
  • right, justice (often as a synonym of punishment)
  • religion, religious merit
  • Law or Justice personified
  • the law or doctrine of Buddhism
  • the ethical precepts of Buddhism
  • the law of Northern Buddhism
  • nature, character, peculiar condition or essential quality, property, mark, peculiarity
  • a particular ceremony
  • sacrifice
  • the ninth mansion
  • Upanishad
  • associating with the virtuous
  • religious abstraction, devotion
  • bow
  • Soma-drinker
  • name of the 15th अर्हत् (अर्हत्) of the present अवसर्पिणी (tr=ava-sarpiṇī)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dʰármas inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰér-mos, *dʰer- (hold, support, dirty, dull, bear, roar, hod, hum, drone).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰer-

Gloss

hold, support, dirty, dull, bear, roar, hod, hum, drone

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Kanji

Emoji
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