"brāhmaṇa" meaning in Pali

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Noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brāhmaṇa), replacing inherited *bamhaṇa. Etymology templates: {{bor+|pi|sa|ब्राह्मण}} Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brāhmaṇa) Head templates: {{pi-noun|m|f=brāhmaṇī}} brāhmaṇa m (feminine brāhmaṇī) Inflection templates: {{pi-decl-noun|g=m|nomp=brāhmaṇāse}} Forms: brāhmaṇī [feminine], masculine [table-tags], brāhmaṇo [nominative, singular], brāhmaṇā [nominative, plural], brāhmaṇāse [nominative, plural], brāhmaṇaṃ [accusative, singular], brāhmaṇe [accusative, plural], brāhmaṇena [instrumental, singular], brāhmaṇehi [instrumental, plural], brāhmaṇebhi [instrumental, plural], brāhmaṇassa [dative, singular], brāhmaṇāya [dative, singular], brāhmaṇatthaṃ [dative, singular], brāhmaṇānaṃ [dative, plural], brāhmaṇasmā [ablative, singular], brāhmaṇamhā [ablative, singular], brāhmaṇā [ablative, singular], brāhmaṇehi [ablative, plural], brāhmaṇebhi [ablative, plural], brāhmaṇassa [genitive, singular], brāhmaṇānaṃ [genitive, plural], brāhmaṇasmiṃ [locative, singular], brāhmaṇamhi [locative, singular], brāhmaṇe [locative, singular], brāhmaṇesu [locative, plural], brāhmaṇa [singular, vocative], brāhmaṇā [plural, vocative]
  1. brahmin (a man of the Brahman caste) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-brāhmaṇa-pi-noun-B3RSLUiZ Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pali entries with incorrect language header, Pali nouns with other-gender equivalents Synonyms: 𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀡 [Brahmi, character], ब्राह्मण [Devanagari, character], ব্রাহ্মণ [Bengali], බ්රාහ්මණ [Sinhalese, character], ဗြာဟ္မဏ, ၿြႃႁ္မꧣ, ၿြႃႁ်မꧣ [Burmese, character], พฺราหฺมณ, พราหมะณะ [Thai, character], ᨻᩕᩣᩉ᩠ᨾᨱ [Tai-Tham, character], ພ຺ຣາຫ຺ມຓ, ພຣາຫມະຓະ [Lao, character], ព្រាហ្មណ [Khmer, character], 𑄝𑄳𑄢𑄂𑄦𑄴𑄟𑄕 [Chakma, character]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "singular"
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Pali dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.