"preta" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹeɪtə/ Forms: pretas [plural]
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रेत (preta). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|sa|प्रेत}} Sanskrit प्रेत (preta) Head templates: {{en-noun}} preta (plural pretas)
  1. A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit of a greedy person whose divine retribution is never to be sated) Wikipedia link: preta Translations (a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore): бирэд (bired) (Buryat), 餓鬼 (Chinese Mandarin), 饿鬼 (èguǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), préta (Hungarian), 餓鬼 (gaki) (Japanese), бирд (bird) (Kalmyk), 아귀 (agwi) (Korean), бирд (bird) (Mongolian), пре́та (préta) [feminine] (Russian), प्रेत (preta) [masculine] (Sanskrit), prete (Tocharian B), ma đói (Vietnamese), ngạ quỷ (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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