Bụt
Vietnamese
etym-sino
Definitions
- (alt form) Phật
- (folklore) A wise and kind old man, usually depicted with a white beard and white clothes, who often appears when the protagonist of a folkloric tale is crying aloud for help and grants them wishes, similarly to the Western fairy godmother
Etymology
Derived from Pali buddha (enlightened, awakened, l, en, Buddha) derived from Sanskrit बुद्ध (awakened, enlightened, Buddha).
Origin
Sanskrit
बुद्ध
Gloss
awakened, enlightened, Buddha
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Buddha English
- Budda Italian
- bouddhisme French
- Будда Russian
- бу́дда Russian
- *bʰewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- 仏 Japanese
- 仏陀 Japanese
- प्रतिबुद्ध Sanskrit
- बुद्ध Sanskrit
- बुध् Sanskrit
- búda Irish
- बुद्ध Hindi
- بت Persian
- พุทธ Thai
- พุทธพาณิชย์ Thai
- Βούδας Greek (modern)
- ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနာ Burmese
- 佛 Chinese
- 佛陀 Chinese
- 浮屠 Chinese
- Buddha Pali
- buddha Pali
- buddharūpa Pali
- buddhābhiseka Pali
- बुद्ध Marathi
- ពុទ្ធ Central Khmer
- *buddʰás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- புத்தன் Tamil
- ພຸດ Lao
- སངས་རྒྱས Tibetan
- ಬುದ್ಧ Kannada
- 佛止 Old Korean
- 𐨦𐨂𐨢 Gandhari