Dukkata, Dukkaṭa, Du-kata: 5 definitions
Introduction:
Dukkata means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
T Fault due to unwholesome action.
See also: The dukkatas and the dubbhasitas
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
dukkata : (adj.) badly done. (nt.) wrong action.
1) dukkata (ဒုက္ကတ) [(na) (န)]—
[du+kata.du ninditaṃ karaṇa]massa dukkaṭaṃ.,ṭī.84.(-rū.347).]
[ဒု+ကတ။ ဒု နိန္ဒိတံ ကရဏ'မဿ ဒုက္ကဋံ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၈၄။ (-ရူ။၃၄၇)။]
2) dukkaṭa (ဒုက္ကဋ) [(na) (န)]—
[du+kata.du ninditaṃ karaṇa]massa dukkaṭaṃ.,ṭī.84.(-rū.347).]
[ဒု+ကတ။ ဒု နိန္ဒိတံ ကရဏ'မဿ ဒုက္ကဋံ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၈၄။ (-ရူ။၃၄၇)။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) dukkata—
(Burmese text): (၁) မကောင်းသဖြင့် (ချွတ်ယွင်း-ချော်လွှဲ-စေ၍) ပြုအပ်သော အမှု၊ မကောင်းမှု။ (၂) စက်ဆုပ်အပ်စွာ ပြုအပ်သော အမှု။ (၃) (က) မတင့်တယ်သော-ပြုခြင်း-အမူအရာ။ (ဂ) ဖောက်ပြန်သော-ပြုခြင်း-အမူအရာ၊ ဒုက္ကဋ်အာပတ်။ (တိ) (၄) မကောင်းသဖြင့်-ပြု-ကျင့်-အပ်သော၊ အပြစ်ရှိသော (အမှု-စသည်)။ (၅) မကောင်းသဖြင့်-ပြု-ကျင့်-အပ်သော-အမှု-လုပ်ငန်း-ရှိသော၊ သူ။ ဒုက္ကဋဇန-ကြည့်။ (၆) ကဲ့ရဲ့အပ်သော-ပြုခြင်း-အမူအရာ-ရှိသော။ ဒေါင့်ကွင်းပြန်ကြည့်ပါ။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) An act or deed that is bad due to (error or oversight). (2) An act done with machinery mistakenly. (3) (a) Improper action or behavior. (b) Misconduct or bad behavior, resulting in suffering. (4) An act or conduct that is bad because of a fault. (5) A person who has committed a bad act or behavior. See suffering through karma. (6) An act or behavior that is misguided or incorrect. Please reflect on the context. Look back at the original.
2) dukkaṭa—
(Burmese text): (၁) မကောင်းသဖြင့် (ချွတ်ယွင်း-ချော်လွှဲ-စေ၍) ပြုအပ်သော အမှု၊ မကောင်းမှု။ (၂) စက်ဆုပ်အပ်စွာ ပြုအပ်သော အမှု။ (၃) (က) မတင့်တယ်သော-ပြုခြင်း-အမူအရာ။ (ဂ) ဖောက်ပြန်သော-ပြုခြင်း-အမူအရာ၊ ဒုက္ကဋ်အာပတ်။ (တိ) (၄) မကောင်းသဖြင့်-ပြု-ကျင့်-အပ်သော၊ အပြစ်ရှိသော (အမှု-စသည်)။ (၅) မကောင်းသဖြင့်-ပြု-ကျင့်-အပ်သော-အမှု-လုပ်ငန်း-ရှိသော၊ သူ။ ဒုက္ကဋဇန-ကြည့်။ (၆) ကဲ့ရဲ့အပ်သော-ပြုခြင်း-အမူအရာ-ရှိသော။ ဒေါင့်ကွင်းပြန်ကြည့်ပါ။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) An action or behavior that is bad due to (faulty-incorrect-defective). (2) An action done due to negligence. (3) (a) Improper behavior or actions. (b) Contradictory behavior or actions, causing adversity. (4) An action or behavior that is bad due to - the nature of which is sinful (such actions and so on). (5) A person who engages in actions or behaviors that are bad due to their nature - indicating wrongdoing. (6) Having behaviors or actions that are ill-advised. Please refer to the original context. Check the original.
Dukkaṭa (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 惡作 [è zuò]: “misdeed”.
2) 突吉羅 [tū jí luó]: “misdeeds”; “misdemeanors”.

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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Du, Dou, Tu, Kata, Kitta.
Starts with (+3): Dukkata-apatti, Dukkatabhaya, Dukkataditthi, Dukkatagami, Dukkatagatha, Dukkatajana, Dukkatakamma, Dukkatakammakari, Dukkatakari, Dukkatakhetta, Dukkatakiriya, Dukkatapattikkhandha, Dukkatapattipuccha, Dukkatapattivatthuka, Dukkatasamghadisesamissaka, Dukkatasannita, Dukkatatthana, Dukkataupahana, Dukkatavacana, Dukkatavara.
Full-text (+50): Dukkataupahana, Khananadukkata, Annatakavinnattidukkata, Chedanadukkata, Kammadukkata, Nipajjanamuladukkata, Bahudukkata, Kuladusakadukkata, Dukkatabhaya, Natadukkata, Dukkataditthi, Dukkatavatthu, Dukkatavara, Ratticchedadukkata, Dukkatasannita, Dukkatavacana, Vinayatisaradukkata, Vinnattidukkata, Divasayanadukkata, Uddharanadukkata.
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