Manussa, Manu-ussa: 6 definitions
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Pali-English dictionary
manussa : (m.) a human being.
Manussa, (fr. manus, cp. Vedic manuṣya. Connected etym. with Goth. manna=man) a human being, man. The popular etym. connects m. with Manu(s), the ancestor of men, e.g. KhA 123: “Manuno apaccā ti manussā, porāṇā pana bhaṇanti “mana-ussannatāya manussa” ; te Jambudīpakā, Aparagoyānikā, Uttarakurukā, Pubbavidehakā ti catubbidhā. ” Similarly with the other view of connecting it with “mind” VvA. 18: “manassa ussannatāya manussā” etc. Cp. also VvA. 23, where manussa-nerayika, °peta, °tiracchāna are distinguished.—Sn. 75, 307, 333 sq. , 611 sq.; Dh. 85, 188, 197 sq. , 321; Nd1 97 (as gati), 340, 484 (°phassa of Sn. 964); Vism. 312; VbhA. 455 (var. clans); DhA. I, 364.—amanussa not human, a deva, a ghost, a spirit; in cpds. “haunted, ” ilke °kantāra J. I, 395, °ṭṭhāna Vv 843 (cp. VvA. 334 where explained); °sadda DhA. I, 315. See also separately amanussa.
manussa (မနုဿ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[manu+ussa．kusalākusale dhamme manati jānātīti manusso．ka．671．rū．683．nīti sutta．1319．mana+ussanna．manassa ussannatāya manussā．sāgattha,2．19-2va．dī,ṭī,3．1va2．vibhāvinī．162．,ṭī．227．manu+ssa,manuno apacasabhāvena manussā．dī,ṭī,3．1va2．,4．8．]
[မနု+ဥဿ။ ကုသလာကုသလေ ဓမ္မေ မနတိ ဇာနာတီတိ မနုဿော။ ကစ္စည်း။၆၇၁။ ရူ။၆၈၃။ နီတိ သုတ္တ။ ၁၃၁၉။ မန+ဥဿန္န။ မနဿ ဥဿန္နတာယ မနုဿာ။ သာဂတ္ထ၊၂။ ၁၉-၂ဝ။ ဒီ၊ဋီ၊၃။၁ဝ၂။ ဝိဘာဝိနီ။ ၁၆၂။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂၂၇။ မနု+ဿ၊ မနုနော အပစသဘာဝေန မနုဿာ။ ဒီ၊ဋီ၊၃။၁ဝ၂။ မောဂ်၊၄။၈။]
[Pali to Burmese]
manussa—
(Burmese text): လူ။ ဥပစာအားဖြင့် လူ့ဘုံ လူ့ဂတိကို အရာဌာန အားလျော်စွာ မနုဿသဒ္ဒါ ဟောသည်)။
(Auto-Translation): Humanity. According to the aphorism, it is said that humanity is the balance of the cosmic principles.
Manussa (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 人間 [rén jiān]: “human being”.
2) Manussā (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 人民 [rén mín]: “common people”.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Maṇussa (मणुस्स) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Manuṣya.
Maṇussa has the following synonyms: Maṇusa.
2) Maṇussa (मणुस्स) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Mānuṣya.
3) Māṇussa (माणुस्स) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Mānuṣya.
Māṇussa has the following synonyms: Māṇussaya.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
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Partial matches (+0): Ma nu, Manu.
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