Jetthaka, Jeṭṭhaka, Jettha-ka, Jeṭṭhakā: 4 definitions
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Jetthaka 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.
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jeṭṭhaka : (adj.) chief; fore-most.
Jeṭṭhaka, =jeṭṭha J. I, 253; II, 101 (°tāpasa); III, 281 (°kam māra: head of the silversmith’s guild); IV, 137, 161; V, 282; Pv. I, 113 (putta=pubbaja PvA. 57); DhA. III, 237 (°sīla); IV, 111 (id.); PvA. 36 (°bhariyā), 42 (°pesakāra head of the weaver’s guild), 47 (°vāṇija), 75. (Page 285)
1) jeṭṭhaka (ဇေဋ္ဌက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[jeṭṭha+ka.thīnitea jeṭṭhakāç jeṭṭhikā]
[ဇေဋ္ဌ+က။ ထီ၌ ဇေဋ္ဌကာ,ဇေဋ္ဌိကာ]
2) jeṭṭhakā (ဇေဋ္ဌကာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[jeṭṭhaka+ā]
[ဇေဋ္ဌက+အာ]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) jeṭṭhaka—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) ကြီးသော၊ ကြီးမြတ်သော၊ ချီးမွမ်းအပ်-မြတ်-သော၊ သူ။ (ခ) အကြီးအကဲ-အကြီးအမှူး-ဖြစ်သော၊ သူ။ (ပု) (၂) အကိုကြီး။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Great, noble, deserving of praise - exalted - person. (b) A person who is a leader or chief. (2) elder brother.
2) jeṭṭhakā—
(Burmese text): (က) ကြီးသောမိန်းမ၊ ကြီးမြတ်သော မိန်းမ။ ဇေဋ္ဌက-(က)-ကြည့်။ (ခ) အကြီးအကဲ-အကြီးအမှူး-ဖြစ်သော မိန်းမ။ ဇေဋ္ဌက-(ခ)-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (a) A great woman, a magnificent woman. An important leader - look. (b) A woman who is superior - an eminent figure - look.

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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