Abbhuta: 4 definitions
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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryabbhuta : (adj.) wonderful; marvelous. (nt.), a wonder; a marvel; a bet.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary1) Abbhuta, 2 (nt.) (= abbhuta1 in the sense of invoking strange powers in gambling, thus being under direct spell of the “unknown”) a bet, a wager, only in phrase abbhutaṃ karoti (sahassena) to make a bet or to bet (a thousand, i. e. kahāpaṇa’s or pieces of money) Vin.III, 138; IV, 5; J.I, 191; V, 427; VI, 192; PvA.151; & in phrase pañcahi sahassehi abbhutaṃ hotu J.VI, 193. (Page 60)
2) Abbhuta, 1 (adj. nt.) (*Sk. adbhuta which appears to be constructed from the Pāli & offers like its companion *āścarya (acchariya abbhuta see below) serious difficulties as to etym. The most probable solution is that P. abbhuta is a secondary adj.-formation from abbhuṃ which in itself is nt. of abbha = Vedic abhva (see etym. under abbhāmatta and cp. abbhu, abbhuṃ & J.P.T.S. 1889, 201). In meaning abbhuta is identical with Vedic abhva contrary to what usually happens, i. e. striking, abnormal, gruesome, horrible etc.; & that its significance as a + bhū (“unreal?”) is felt in the background is also evident from the traditional etym. of the Pāli Commentators (see below). See also acchariya) terrifying, astonishing; strange, exceptional, puzzling, extraordinary, marvellous, supernormal. Described as a term of surprise & consternation (vimhay’āvahass’adhivacanaṃ DA.I, 43 & VvA.329) & expld. as “something that is not” or “has not been before”, viz. abhūtaṃ ThA.233; abhūta-pubbatāya abbhutaṃ VvA.191, 329; abhūta-pubbaṃ DA.I, 43. — 1. (adj.) wonderful, marvellous etc. Sn.681 (kiṃ °ṃ, combd. with lomahaṃsana); J.IV, 355 (id.); Th.2, 316 (abbhutaṃ vata vācaṃ bhāsasi = acchariyaṃ ThA.233); Vv 449 (°dassaneyya); Sdhp.345, 496. — 2. (nt.) the wonderful, a wonder, marvel S.IV, 371, also in °dhamma (see Cpd.). Very frequent in combn. with acchariyaṃ and a part. of exclamation, viz, acchariyaṃ bho abbhutaṃ bho wonderful indeed & beyond comprehension, strange & stupefying D.I, 206; acch. vata bho abbh. vata bho D.I, 60; acch. bhante abbh. A.II, 50; aho acch. aho abbh. J.I, 88; acch. vata abbh. vata Vv 8316. — Thus also in phrase acchariyā abbhutā dhammā wonderful & extraordinary signs or things M.III, 118, 125; A.II, 130; IV, 198; Miln.8; and in acchariya-abbhutacitta-jāta dumbfounded & surprised J.I, 88; DhA.IV, 52; PvA.6, 50.
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) abbhuta (အဗ္ဘုတ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[abbha+ta,abhi+ta. abbha gamane to,abhi sadde vā to,asarūpadvittaṃ,abbhatopi. ,ṭī.532. nīti,pada.34va-41-.]
[အဗ္ဘ+တ၊ အဘိ+တ။ အဗ္ဘ ဂမနေ တော၊ အဘိ သဒ္ဒေ ဝါ တော၊ အသရူပဒွိတ္တံ၊ အဗ္ဘတောပိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၅၃၂။ နီတိ၊ပဒ။၃၄ဝ-၄၁-လည်းကြည့်။]
2) abbhuta (အဗ္ဘုတ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[na+bhūta. na bhavitthāti abbhuto. asarūpadvittaṃç rasso ca,abhūtopi. ,ṭī.736. atatī,abyayaṃ āyasmikatthe,tathā bhātipi,bhā+ḍu. vācappati. a ata+kvipa so aç ta aho abyayarhiso bhā (=dittiyaṃ) utapa yuea . vi,.]
[န+ဘူတ။ န ဘဝိတ္ထာတိ အဗ္ဘုတော။ အသရူပဒွိတ္တံ,ရဿော စ၊ အဘူတောပိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၇၃၆။ အတတီတျတ်၊ အဗျယံ အာယသ္မိကတ္ထေ၊ တထာ ဘာတိပိ၊ ဘာ+ဍုတစ်။ ဝါစပ္ပတိ။ ယင်းအလို အတဓာတ်+ကွိပစ္စည်းဖြင့် ပြီးသော အကြောင်းမဲ့,ရုတ်တရက် အနက်ဟောအတ် အဗျယပုဒ်ရှေးရှိသော ဘာ (=ဒိတ္တိယံ) ဓာတ်နောင် ဥတပစ္စည်း သက်၍ ပြီးသည်။ ဝိ၊ဓာန်လည်း ကြည့်။]
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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