Jettha, Jeṭṭha, Jetthā: 5 definitions
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Jettha 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)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesChief queen of Aggabodhi IV. She built the Jettharama. Cv.xlvi.27.
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
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryjeṭṭha : (adj.) elder; supreme; foremost.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryJeṭṭha, (adj.) (compar. -superl. formation of jyā power. Gr. bi/a, from ji in jināti & jayati “stronger than others, ” used as superl. (& compar.) to vuḍḍha old-elder, eldest. The compar. *jeyya is a grammarian’s construction, see remarks on kaniṭṭha) better (than others), best, first, supreme; first-born; elder brother or sister, elder, eldest D. II, 15 (aggo jeṭṭho seṭṭho=the first, foremost & best of all); A. I, 108; II, 87; III, 152; IV, 175; J. I, 138 (°putta); II, 101 (°bhātā), 128 (°yakkhinī); IV, 137.
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) jeṭṭha (ဇေဋ္ဌ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[jeṭṭhā+ṇa．pasatthatamattājeṭṭhā,taṃ yogā jeṭṭho．,ṭī．75．jeṭṭhāya yutto māso jeṭṭho．rū．377．(ṭṭha-saṃ)]
[ဇေဋ္ဌာ+ဏ။ ပသတ္ထတမတ္တာဇေဋ္ဌာ၊ တံ ယောဂါ ဇေဋ္ဌော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၇၅။ ဇေဋ္ဌာယ ယုတ္တော မာသော ဇေဋ္ဌော။ရူ။၃၇၇။ (ဇျဲဋ္ဌ-သံ)]
2) jeṭṭha (ဇေဋ္ဌ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vuḍḍha+iṭṭha．ayañca vuḍḍho ayañcavuḍḍho,ayamimesaṃ visesena vuḍḍhoti jeṭṭho,vuḍḍhasaddā iṭṭhapaccayo,]]vuḍḍhassajo iyaṭṭhesū] ]ti vuḍḍhassa jo,alope parassāsavaṇṇattaṃ．,ṭī．254．iṭṭhapaccaye vuḍḍhassa jādeso,jeṭṭho．,ṭī．693-6．(-ka．262．rū．391．,4．135．nīti,sutta．513．niruttidīpanī．556)．pasattha+iṭṭha．ayañca pasattho ayañca pasattho sabbe ime pasatthā ayamimesaṃ visesena pasatthoti．．．jeyyo,jeṭṭho．rū．392．(-ka．263．niruttidīpanī．557)．thīnitea jeṭṭhā．(jyeṭṭha-saṃ)]
[ဝုဍ္ဎ+ဣဋ္ဌ။ အယဉ္စ ဝုဍ္ဎော အယဉ္စဝုဍ္ဎော၊ အယမိမေသံ ဝိသေသေန ဝုဍ္ဎောတိ ဇေဋ္ဌော၊ ဝုဍ္ဎသဒ္ဒါ ဣဋ္ဌပစ္စယော၊ ＂ဝုဍ္ဎဿဇော ဣယဋ္ဌေသူ' 'တိ ဝုဍ္ဎဿ ဇော၊ အလောပေ ပရဿာသဝဏ္ဏတ္တံ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂၅၄။ ဣဋ္ဌပစ္စယေ ဝုဍ္ဎဿ ဇာဒေသော၊ ဇေဋ္ဌော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၉၃-၆။ (-ကစ္စည်း။၂၆၂။ရူ။၃၉၁။မောဂ်၊၄။၁၃၅။နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။၅၁၃။နိရုတ္တိဒီပနီ။၅၅၆)။ ပသတ္ထ+ဣဋ္ဌ။ အယဉ္စ ပသတ္ထော အယဉ္စ ပသတ္ထော သဗ္ဗေ ဣမေ ပသတ္ထာ အယမိမေသံ ဝိသေသေန ပသတ္ထောတိ．．．ဇေယျော၊ ဇေဋ္ဌော။ရူ။၃၉၂။ (-ကစ္စည်း။၂၆၃။နိရုတ္တိဒီပနီ။၅၅၇)။ ထီ၌ ဇေဋ္ဌာ။ (ဇျေဋ္ဌ-သံ)]
3) jeṭṭhā (ဇေဋ္ဌာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[jeṭṭha(1)+ā]
[ဇေဋ္ဌ(၁)+အာ]
[Pali to Burmese]
Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)1) jeṭṭha—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) ကြီးသော၊ ကြီးမြတ်သော၊ ချီးမွမ်းအပ်-မြတ်-သော၊ သူ။ (ခ) အကြီးအကဲ-အကြီးအမှူး-ဖြစ်သော၊ သူ။ (ဂ) ရှေးဦး-အစ-ပဌမ-ဖြစ်သော၊ အရာ။ (ပု) (၂) အကိုကြီး။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Great, magnificent, exalted person. (b) A person who is a leader or chief. (c) An ancient or original thing. (2) Elder brother.
2) jeṭṭha—
(Burmese text): ဇေဋ္ဌနက္ခတ်နှင့်ယှဉ်သောလ၊ နယုန်လ။ ဇေဋ္ဌမာသ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Moon comparing with Jupiter, the planet Venus. Observing Jupiter.
3) jeṭṭhā—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) ကြီးသော မိန်းမ၊ ကြီးမြတ်သော မိန်းမ။ ဇေဋ္ဌ-(၁)-ကြည့်။ (ခ) အကြီးအကဲ-အကြီးအမှူး-ဖြစ်သော မိန်းမ။ ဇေဋ္ဌဗ္ဗတိက-ကြည့်။ (၂) အမကြီး။ (၃) ဇေဋ္ဌနက္ခတ်။ (ခ) ဇေဋ္ဌယက္ခိနီ-ကြည့်။ ဇေဋ္ဌ-(၂)-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Great woman, illustrious woman. See Zedha-(1). (b) A woman who is a leader, a prominent person. See Zedhabvatika. (2) Mother-in-law. (3) Zedhalakhat. (b) See Zedhayakhini. Also see Zedha-(2).
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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Partial matches: Vuddha, Jettha, Icchita, Na.
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