Kulaputta, Kula-putta: 4 definitions

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kulaputta : (m.) young man of a good family.

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

Kulaputta refers to: a clansman, a (young) man of good family, fils de famille, cp. Low Ger. haussohn; a gentleman, man of good birth. As 2nd characteristic of a Brahmin (with sujāto as 1st) in formula at D. I, 93, 94≈; Vin. I, 15, 43, 185, 288, 350; M. I, 85≈(in kāmānaṃ ādīnavo passage), 192, 210, 463; A. II, 249; J. I, 82; VI, 71; It. 89; VvA. 128; PvA. 12, 29;

Note: kulaputta is a Pali compound consisting of the words kula and putta.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

kulaputta (ကုလပုတ္တ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kula+putta]
[ကုလ+ပုတ္တ]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

[Pali to Burmese]

kulaputta—

(Burmese text): အမျိုးသား၊ အမျိုးကောင်းသား။ (က) အကျင့်နှင့် ပြည့်စုံ-အကျင့်ကောင်း-သောအမျိုးသား။ (ခ) ဇာတ်နှင့်ပြည့်စုံ-ဇာတ်မြင့်-သော အမျိုးသား။ (ဂ) ဇာတ်,အကျင့်နှစ်ပါးနှင့် ပြည့်စုံ-ဇာတ်မြင့်,အကျင့်ကောင်း-သော အမျိုးသား။

(Auto-Translation): Man, good man. (a) A man who is complete in character and has good behavior. (b) A man who is complete in dignity and has high stature. (c) A man who is complete in both dignity and character, possessing high stature and good behavior.

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)
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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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