Buddha

See also: buddha

English

1st century CE sculpture of a Buddha

Alternative forms

Budda (uncommon)
Buddhah
Boodha (archaic)
buddha (common noun, senses 2 and 3)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali buddha (“awakened, enlightened”), Pali Buddha (“the Buddha”), from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”), past participle of बोधति (bodhati, “to wake”). Distantly related to English bid and bede. Also cognate with Russian будить (buditʹ, “to wake up”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: bo͝odə, IPA^(key): /ˈbʊdə/
(General American) enPR: bo͞odə, IPA^(key): /ˈbudə/
Audio (US) (file)
IPA^(key): /ˈbʊdːʰə/ (only in technical contexts) – approximation of Hindustani [ˈbʊdːʱə], which features a geminate ‘d’ and breathy voice on the second ‘d’, neither of which is idiomatic to English
Rhymes: -ʊdə, -uːdə
Homophone: Buda (one pronunciation of each word)

Proper noun

(the) Buddha

Buddha Shakyamuni, Indian spiritual and philosophical teacher and founder of Buddhism; Siddhartha Gautama; also considered by many Hindus to be the ninth avatar of Vishnu

Usage notes

Must be preceded by the definite article ("the"), but less careful users of English are prone to violate this norm.

Translations

spiritual and philosophical teacher

Albanian: Buda (sq) m
Arabic: بُوذَا‎ m (būḏā)
Armenian: Բուդդա (hy) (Budda)
Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀩𑀼𑀥 (budha)
Assamese: বুদ্ধ (buddho)
Azerbaijani: Budda, Büt
Belarusian: Бу́да m (Búda)
Bengali: বুদ্ধ (bn) (buddhô)
Bulgarian: Бу́да m (Búda)
Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓ (my) (buddha.), ဘုရား (my) (bhu.ra:)
Catalan: Buda (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 佛 (fat⁶), 佛陀 (fat⁶ to⁴), 浮屠 (fau⁴ tou⁴), 浮圖, 浮图 (fau⁴ tou⁴), 佛馱, 佛驮 (fat⁶ to⁴), 浮陀 (fau⁴ to⁴), 休屠 (jau¹ tou⁴), 浮頭 (yue), 浮头 (fau⁴ tau⁴), 勃陀 (but⁶ to⁴), 勃馱, 勃驮 (but⁶ to⁴), 部多 (bou⁶ do¹), 部陀 (bou⁶ to⁴), 毋陀 (mou⁴ to⁴), 沒馱, 没驮 (mut⁶ to⁴), 沸馱, 沸驮 (fai³ to⁴), 步他 (bou³ taa¹), 復豆, 复豆 (fuk⁶ dou⁶), 佛圖, 佛图 (fat⁶ tou⁴), 物他 (mat⁶ taa¹), 馞陀 (but⁶ to⁴), 沒陀, 没陀 (mut⁶ to⁴), 釋迦牟尼, 释迦牟尼 (sik¹ gaa¹ mau⁴ nei⁴), 佛祖 (fat⁶ zou²), 釋迦, 释迦 (sik¹ gaa¹), 釋迦牟尼佛, 释迦牟尼佛 (sik¹ gaa¹ mau⁴ nei⁴ fat⁶), 釋迦佛, 释迦佛 (sik¹ gaa¹ fat⁶)
Dungan: фә (fə)
Hakka: 佛 (fu̍t), 釋迦牟尼, 释迦牟尼 (Sit-kâ-meù-nì), 佛祖 (fu̍t-chú)
Mandarin: 佛 (zh) (Fó), 佛陀 (zh) (Fótuó), 浮屠 (zh) (Fútú), 釋迦牟尼／释迦牟尼 (zh) (Shìjiāmóuní), 浮圖／浮图 (zh) (Fútú), 佛馱／佛驮 (Fótuó), 浮陀 (Fútuó), 休屠 (zh) (Xiūtú), 浮頭／浮头 (zh) (Fútóu), 勃陀 (zh) (Bótuó), 勃馱／勃驮 (Bótuó), 部多 (Bùduō), 部陀 (Bùtuó), 毋陀 (Wútuó), 沒馱／没驮 (Mòtuó), 沸馱／沸驮 (Fèituó), 步他 (Bùtā), 復豆／复豆 (Fùdòu), 佛圖／佛图 (zh) (Fótú), 物他 (Wùtā), 馞陀 (Bótuó), 沒陀／没陀 (Mòtuó), 佛祖 (zh) (Fózǔ), 釋迦／释迦 (zh) (Shìjiā), 釋迦牟尼佛／释迦牟尼佛 (zh) (Shìjiāmóuní Fó), 釋迦佛／释迦佛 (zh) (Shìjiā Fó)
Min Nan: 佛 (zh-min-nan) (Hu̍t, Pu̍t), 佛陀 (Hu̍t-tô), 釋迦, 释迦 (Sek-khia), 佛祖 (zh-min-nan) (Hu̍t-chó͘, Pu̍t-chó͘), 釋迦牟尼, 释迦牟尼 (Sek-khia-mô͘-nî), 釋迦牟尼佛, 释迦牟尼佛 (Sek-khia-mô͘-nî-hu̍t), 釋迦佛, 释迦佛 (Sek-khia-hu̍t)
Czech: Buddha m
Danish: Buddha (da) c
Dutch: Boeddha (nl) m
Dzongkha: ཤཱ་ཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ (shā kya thub pa)
Esperanto: Budho
Estonian: Buddha (et)
Finnish: Buddha (fi)
French: Bouddha (fr) m
Georgian: ბუდა (buda)
German: Buddha (de) m
Greek: Βούδας (el) m (Voúdas)
Gujarati: બુદ્ધ m (buddh)
Hebrew: בּוּדְהָא‎ m (budha) (the "dh" sounds like d+h)
Hindi: बुद्ध (hi) m (buddh)
Hungarian: Buddha (hu)
Icelandic: Búdda m
Indonesian: Buddha (id), Siddhārtha Gautama
Irish: Búda m
Italian: Buddha m, Budda m
Japanese: 仏陀 (ja) (ぶっだ, Budda; ぶつだ, Butsuda), 仏 (ja) (ほとけ, Hotoke)
Kannada: ಗೌತಮ ಬುದ್ಧ (gautama buddha), ಬುದ್ಧ (kn) (buddha), ಬುದ್ಧ (kn) (buddha)
Kapampangan: Budda m
Karakhanid: بُرْخَنْ‎ (burχan)
Kashmiri: بۄد‎ (bọd)
Kazakh: Бұддһа (Būddha), Будда (Budda)
Khmer: ព្រះពុទ្ធ (km) (prĕəh put), ពុទ្ធ (km) (put)
Korean: 부처 (ko) (Bucheo), 불타(佛陀) (Bulta)
Kyrgyz: Будда (Budda)
Lao: ພຸດທະ (phut tha), ພຸດ (phut)
Latvian: Buda m
Lithuanian: Buda m
Lü: ᦕᦳᧆᧈ (ṗhud¹), ᦕᦳᧆᧈᦏᦰᧈ (ṗhud¹ṫh!¹)
Macedonian: Буда m (Buda)
Malay: Buddha
Malayalam: ബുദ്ധൻ (buddhaṉ)
Maltese: Buddha m
Manchu: ᡶᡠᠴᡳᡥᡳ (fucihi)
Marathi: बुद्ध m (buddha)
Middle Korean: 부텨 (Pwùthyè)
Middle Persian: 𐭡𐭥𐭲𐭩‎ (bʿty /but/)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Будда (mn) (Budda), Бурхан (mn) (Burxan) (the God)
Nepali: बुद्ध (buddha)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Buddha m
Oriya: ବୁଦ୍ଧ (or) (buddhô)
Pali: Buddha m
Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓ m (buddha)
Devanagari: बुद्ध m (buddha)
Thai: พุทธะ m (buddha)
Pashto: بودا‎ (ps) m (budã)
Persian: بت‎ (fa) (bot), بودا‎ (fa) (budâ)
Polish: Budda (pl) m
Portuguese: Buda (pt) m
Punjabi: ਬੁੱਧ (buddha)
Rohingya: Buddá
Romanian: Buddha m
Russian: Бу́дда (ru) m (Búdda)
Rusyn: Бу́дга m (Búdha)
Salar: Palçıx kiş
Sanskrit: बुद्ध (sa) m (buddha)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бу́да m
Roman: Búda (sh) m
Shan: ပုၵ်ႉထႃႉ (pṵ̂k thâ̰a)
Sinhalese: බුද්ධ (si) (buddha)
Slovak: Budha m
Slovene: Búda (sl) m
Southern Altai: Боодо (Boodo)
Spanish: Buda m
Swedish: Buddha (sv) c
Tagalog: Buda
Tajik: Буддо (Buddo)
Tamil: புத்தன் (ta) (puttaṉ), புத்தர் (ta) (puttar)
Tatar: Будда (Budda)
Telugu: బుద్ధుడు (te) (buddhuḍu), గౌతమబుద్ధుడు (te) (gautamabuddhuḍu)
Thai: พระพุทธเจ้า (th) (prá-pút-tá-jâao), พระโพธิสัตว์ (prá-poo-tí-sàt), พุทธ (th) (pút), พุทธะ (th) (pút-tá)
Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས (sangs rgyas), ཐུབ (thub)
Tocharian B: Pañäkte
Turkish: Buda (tr)
Turkmen: Budda
Tuvan: Богда (Bogda), Бурган (Burgan)
Ukrainian: Бу́дда m (Búdda)
Urdu: بدھ‎ (ur) m (buddha)
Uyghur: بۇددا‎ (budda)
Uzbek: Budda
Vietnamese: Phật (vi) (佛), Bụt (vi) (侼)
Yiddish: בודאַ‎ m (buda)
Zhuang: Swzgyahmouzniz (Sakyamuni), baed

Noun

Buddha (plural Buddhas)

Any of the other Buddhas named in Buddhist scriptures.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 196:
  “Mind,” he began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes and without a lotus-flower - “Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this.”
An enlightened or awakened sentient being.
Buddhas and Gods look only at our hearts.
A statue or image of any Buddha.
I love visiting the temple to see the Buddha.

Derived terms

Buddha-dharma
Buddhahood
Buddha's delight
Buddha-nature
Buddhism
Buddhist
Buddhization
Buddhological
Buddhology

Finnish

Etymology

From Pali buddha.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbudhɑ/, [ˈbudhɑ]
IPA^(key): /ˈbudːhɑ/, [ˈbudːhɑ]
Rhymes: -udːhɑ
Syllabification^(key): budd‧ha

Proper noun

Buddha

Buddha

Declension

Inflection of Buddha (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		Buddha	—
genitive		Buddhan	—
partitive		Buddhaa	—
illative		Buddhaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Buddha	—
accusative	nom.	Buddha	—
accusative	gen.	Buddhan	—
genitive		Buddhan	—
partitive		Buddhaa	—
inessive		Buddhassa	—
elative		Buddhasta	—
illative		Buddhaan	—
adessive		Buddhalla	—
ablative		Buddhalta	—
allative		Buddhalle	—
essive		Buddhana	—
translative		Buddhaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Buddhatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Buddha (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Buddhani	Buddhamme
2nd person	Buddhasi	Buddhanne
3rd person	Buddhansa

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbʊda/
Audio (file)

Noun

Buddha m (strong, genitive Buddhas, plural Buddhas)

buddha

Declension

Declension of Buddha [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Buddha	die	Buddhas
genitive	eines	des	Buddhas	der	Buddhas
dative	einem	dem	Buddha	den	Buddhas
accusative	einen	den	Buddha	die	Buddhas

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbud.da/
Rhymes: -udda
Hyphenation: Bùd‧dha

Noun

Buddha m (invariable)

Alternative spelling of Budda

Pali

Alternative forms

𑀩𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (Brahmi script)
बुद्ध (Devanagari script)
বুদ্ধ (Bengali script)
බුද‍්ධ (Sinhalese script)
ဗုဒ္ဓ or ၿုၻ္ꩪ or ၿုၻ်ꩪ (Burmese script)
พุทฺธ or พุทธะ (Thai script)
ᨻᩩᨴ᩠ᨵ (Tai Tham script)
ພຸທ຺ຘ or ພຸທຘະ (Lao script)
ពុទ្ធ (Khmer script)
𑄝𑄪𑄘𑄴𑄙 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened”).

Noun

Buddha m

(Buddhism) Buddha, the enlightened one.

Descendants

Terms borrowed from "Buddha"

Arabic: بُوذَا‎ (būḏā)
Bactrian: Βοδδο (Boddo), Βουδο (Boudo)
Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓ (buddha.)
English: Buddha
Esperanto: Budho
French: Bouddha
Greek: Βούδας (Voúdas)
Irish: Búda
Indonesian: Buddha
- Malay: Buddha
Italian: Budda
Japanese: 仏陀 (ぶつだ, Butsuda)
Khmer: ព្រះពុទ្ធ (prĕəh put), ពុទ្ធ (put)
Korean: 부처 (bucheo)
Lao: ພຸດທະ (phut tha), ພຸດ (phut)
Mongolian: Будда (Budda)
Russian: Бу́дда (Búdda)
Sogdian: [script needed] (bwt)
- Middle Persian: bwt' (but, “Buddha; idol”)
  - Persian: بت‎ (bot, “idol”)
Thai: พระพุทธเจ้า (prá-pút-tá-jâao), พุทธ (pút)
Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས (sangs rgyas) (calque)
Ukrainian: Бу́дда (Búdda)

Buddha

English

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Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Usage notes

Translations

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

German

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Descendants