"manusya" meaning in English

See manusya in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: manusyas [plural]
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mon-}}, {{translit|en|sa|मनुष्य|tr=manuṣyà}} Transliteration of Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà) Head templates: {{en-noun}} manusya (plural manusyas)
  1. (rare outside of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and related philosophy) man, human being Categories (topical): Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Philosophy Synonyms: manushya, manuṣya

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for manusya meaning in English (3.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mon-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "मनुष्य",
        "tr": "manuṣyà"
      },
      "expansion": "Transliteration of Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà)",
      "name": "translit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Transliteration of Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "manusyas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "manusya (plural manusyas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Buddhism",
          "orig": "en:Buddhism",
          "parents": [
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hinduism",
          "orig": "en:Hinduism",
          "parents": [
            "India",
            "Religion",
            "Asia",
            "Culture",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Jainism",
          "orig": "en:Jainism",
          "parents": [
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Philosophy",
          "orig": "en:Philosophy",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Dr. Harish Chandra, Ph. D., As Simple As It Gets, Hyderabad: Center for Inner Sciences, page 69",
          "text": "If not a devata – let's try to become at least worth a manusya, what we look in appearance. For us to become a manusya, we must take care that we don't take anything from anyone more than what is due to us. As a manusya we cannot and should not cheat others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mahendra Kulasrestha, Culture India: a compendium of Indian philosophy, religion, arts, literature and society, New Delhi: Lotus Press, →OCLC, page 74",
          "text": "Three classes of Prajapati's progeny—Devas (gods), Manusyas (men) and Asuras (demons)—lived a life of discipline under their father, Prajapati […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Mahadev Moreshwar Kunte, The Vicissitudes of Âryan Civilization in India: An Essay, which Treats of the History of the Vedic and Buddhistic Polities, Explaining Their Origin, Prosperity, and Decline, Bombay: Printed at the Oriental Print. Press, →OCLC, page 215",
          "text": "The Manusyas or men are placed next to gods, Gandharvas and Apsarâs were inferior gods who ruled over forests and rivers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 31, “Was Buddha an Incarnation of God?”, in Tsem Rinpoche, archived from the original on 2020-08-12",
          "text": "In the Anguttara Nikaya, He said: ‘I am not indeed a deva, nor a gandharva, nor a yaksa, nor a manusya. Know ye that I am the Buddha.’ After Enlightenment, the Buddha could no longer be classified even as a ‘manusya’ or an ordinary human being.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "man, human being"
      ],
      "id": "en-manusya-en-noun-DDlxdNOk",
      "links": [
        [
          "Hinduism",
          "Hinduism"
        ],
        [
          "Buddhism",
          "Buddhism"
        ],
        [
          "Jainism",
          "Jainism"
        ],
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ],
        [
          "human being",
          "human being"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "rare outside of Hinduism; Jainism and related philosophy; rare outside of Hinduism; Jainism and related philosophy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare outside of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and related philosophy) man, human being"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "manushya"
        },
        {
          "word": "manuṣya"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Buddhism",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "manusya"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mon-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "मनुष्य",
        "tr": "manuṣyà"
      },
      "expansion": "Transliteration of Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà)",
      "name": "translit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Transliteration of Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "manusyas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "manusya (plural manusyas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from Sanskrit",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mon-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transliterations of Sanskrit terms",
        "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "en:Buddhism",
        "en:Hinduism",
        "en:Jainism",
        "en:Philosophy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Dr. Harish Chandra, Ph. D., As Simple As It Gets, Hyderabad: Center for Inner Sciences, page 69",
          "text": "If not a devata – let's try to become at least worth a manusya, what we look in appearance. For us to become a manusya, we must take care that we don't take anything from anyone more than what is due to us. As a manusya we cannot and should not cheat others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mahendra Kulasrestha, Culture India: a compendium of Indian philosophy, religion, arts, literature and society, New Delhi: Lotus Press, →OCLC, page 74",
          "text": "Three classes of Prajapati's progeny—Devas (gods), Manusyas (men) and Asuras (demons)—lived a life of discipline under their father, Prajapati […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Mahadev Moreshwar Kunte, The Vicissitudes of Âryan Civilization in India: An Essay, which Treats of the History of the Vedic and Buddhistic Polities, Explaining Their Origin, Prosperity, and Decline, Bombay: Printed at the Oriental Print. Press, →OCLC, page 215",
          "text": "The Manusyas or men are placed next to gods, Gandharvas and Apsarâs were inferior gods who ruled over forests and rivers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 31, “Was Buddha an Incarnation of God?”, in Tsem Rinpoche, archived from the original on 2020-08-12",
          "text": "In the Anguttara Nikaya, He said: ‘I am not indeed a deva, nor a gandharva, nor a yaksa, nor a manusya. Know ye that I am the Buddha.’ After Enlightenment, the Buddha could no longer be classified even as a ‘manusya’ or an ordinary human being.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "man, human being"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Hinduism",
          "Hinduism"
        ],
        [
          "Buddhism",
          "Buddhism"
        ],
        [
          "Jainism",
          "Jainism"
        ],
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ],
        [
          "human being",
          "human being"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "rare outside of Hinduism; Jainism and related philosophy; rare outside of Hinduism; Jainism and related philosophy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare outside of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and related philosophy) man, human being"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Buddhism",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "manushya"
    },
    {
      "word": "manuṣya"
    }
  ],
  "word": "manusya"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.