"dhamma" meaning in Pali

See dhamma in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [d̪ʱɐm.mɐ]
Etymology: Inherited from Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰérmos. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|pi|sa|धर्म|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=dhárma|ts=}} Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma), {{inh+|pi|sa|धर्म|tr=dhárma}} Inherited from Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma), {{inh|pi|iir-pro|*dʰármas}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas, {{inh|pi|ine-pro|*dʰer-|*dʰérmos}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰérmos Head templates: {{pi-noun|m}} dhamma m Inflection templates: {{pi-decl-noun|g=m}} Forms: masculine [table-tags], dhammo [nominative, singular], dhammā [nominative, plural], dhammaṃ [accusative, singular], dhamme [accusative, plural], dhammena [instrumental, singular], dhammehi [instrumental, plural], dhammebhi [instrumental, plural], dhammassa [dative, singular], dhammāya [dative, singular], dhammatthaṃ [dative, singular], dhammānaṃ [dative, plural], dhammasmā [ablative, singular], dhammamhā [ablative, singular], dhammā [ablative, singular], dhammehi [ablative, plural], dhammebhi [ablative, plural], dhammassa [genitive, singular], dhammānaṃ [genitive, plural], dhammasmiṃ [locative, singular], dhammamhi [locative, singular], dhamme [locative, singular], dhammesu [locative, plural], dhamma [singular, vocative], dhammā [plural, vocative]
  1. truth, righteousness Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-dhamma-pi-noun-TUrypopP
  2. doctrine, teachings Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-dhamma-pi-noun-R9DCfOK8 Categories (other): Pali entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pali entries with incorrect language header: 2 38 41 3 16
  3. doctrine, teachings
    (Buddhism) teachings of the Buddha
    Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Buddhism
    Sense id: en-dhamma-pi-noun-30inm3ws Categories (other): Pali entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pali entries with incorrect language header: 2 38 41 3 16 Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
  4. morality, goodness Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-dhamma-pi-noun-BknWobqC
  5. causal antecedent Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-dhamma-pi-noun-O2zDZmdG Categories (other): Pali entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pali entries with incorrect language header: 2 38 41 3 16
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dhammavicaya, diṭṭhadhamma
Synonyms: 𑀥𑀫𑁆𑀫 [Brahmi, character], धम्म [Devanagari, character], ধম্ম [Bengali], ධම්ම [Sinhalese, character], ဓမ္မ, ꩪမ္မ, ꩪမ်မ [Burmese, character], ธมฺม, ธัมมะ [Thai, character], ᨵᨾ᩠ᨾ [Tai-Tham, character], ຘມ຺ມ, ຘັມມະ, ທັມມະ, ທ຺ັມມະ [Lao, character], ធម្ម [Khmer, character], 𑄙𑄟𑄴𑄟 [Chakma, character]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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      "text": "→ English: dhamma"
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          "expansion": "→ French: dhamma",
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      "text": "→ French: dhamma"
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      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "dhammassa",
      "source": "declension",
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    {
      "form": "dhammāya",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammatthaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "dhammānaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "dhammasmā",
      "source": "declension",
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    {
      "form": "dhammamhā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
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        "singular"
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      "form": "dhammamhi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "dhamme",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dhammesu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhamma",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular",
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        {
          "english": "5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred,\nbut are settled by love. This is an eternal truth.",
          "ref": "c. 50 BC, The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya, Colombo, 2009:",
          "roman": "5. Na hi verena verāni sammantīdha kudācanaṃ 5\nAverena ca sammanti esa dhammo sanantano.",
          "text": "5. න හි වෙරෙන වෙරාචී සම්මන්තීධ කුදාචනං 5\nඅඞවරෙන ච සම්මන්ති එස ධම්මො සනන්තනො.",
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          "ref": "c. 300 BCE, Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada",
          "text": "Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā […]"
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        {
          "english": "The sense of sight is the cause of the factors of the eye-conciousness element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition.",
          "ref": "2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r (PDF), page 20:",
          "roman": "cakkhāyatanaṃ cakkhuviññāṇadhātuyā taṃ\nsampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo.",
          "text": "ຈັກຂາຍະຕະນັງ ຈັກຂຸວິຎຎາຓະຘາຕຸຍາ ຕັງ\nສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈຈະໂຍ,",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[d̪ʱɐm.mɐ]"
    }
  ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Brahmi",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "𑀥𑀫𑁆𑀫"
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "Devanagari",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "धम्म"
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      "tags": [
        "Bengali"
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      "word": "ধম্ম"
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      "word": "ධම්ම"
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      "word": "ဓမ္မ"
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    {
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      "word": "ꩪမ္မ"
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      "word": "ꩪမ်မ"
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      "word": "ธมฺม"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "Thai",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "ธัมมะ"
    },
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      "word": "ᨵᨾ᩠ᨾ"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ຘມ຺ມ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ຘັມມະ"
    },
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      "word": "ທັມມະ"
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      "word": "ធម្ម"
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        "Chakma",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "𑄙𑄟𑄴𑄟"
    }
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  "word": "dhamma"
}
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhamme",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammena",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammehi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammebhi",
      "source": "declension",
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        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammassa",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammāya",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammatthaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammānaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammasmā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammamhā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammehi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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        "ablative",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammassa",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammānaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammasmiṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammamhi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhamme",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammesu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhamma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dhammā",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
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      "expansion": "dhamma m",
      "name": "pi-noun"
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  "lang_code": "pi",
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          "english": "5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred,\nbut are settled by love. This is an eternal truth.",
          "ref": "c. 50 BC, The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya, Colombo, 2009:",
          "roman": "5. Na hi verena verāni sammantīdha kudācanaṃ 5\nAverena ca sammanti esa dhammo sanantano.",
          "text": "5. න හි වෙරෙන වෙරාචී සම්මන්තීධ කුදාචනං 5\nඅඞවරෙන ච සම්මන්ති එස ධම්මො සනන්තනො.",
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          "ref": "c. 300 BCE, Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada",
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          "english": "The sense of sight is the cause of the factors of the eye-conciousness element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition.",
          "ref": "2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r (PDF), page 20:",
          "roman": "cakkhāyatanaṃ cakkhuviññāṇadhātuyā taṃ\nsampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo.",
          "text": "ຈັກຂາຍະຕະນັງ ຈັກຂຸວິຎຎາຓະຘາຕຸຍາ ຕັງ\nສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈຈະໂຍ,",
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          "causal",
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          "antecedent",
          "antecedent"
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    {
      "ipa": "[d̪ʱɐm.mɐ]"
    }
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Brahmi",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "𑀥𑀫𑁆𑀫"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Devanagari",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "धम्म"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Bengali"
      ],
      "word": "ধম্ম"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Sinhalese",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "ධම්ම"
    },
    {
      "word": "ဓမ္မ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ꩪမ္မ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Burmese",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "ꩪမ်မ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ธมฺม"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Thai",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "ธัมมะ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Tai-Tham",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "ᨵᨾ᩠ᨾ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ຘມ຺ມ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ຘັມມະ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ທັມມະ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Lao",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "ທ຺ັມມະ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Khmer",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "ធម្ម"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Chakma",
        "character"
      ],
      "word": "𑄙𑄟𑄴𑄟"
    }
  ],
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}

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