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Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

mettacitta : (adj.) having a benevolent heart.

[Pali to Burmese]

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

1) mettacitta—

(Burmese text): (၁) မေတ္တာနှင့်-တကွဖြစ်-ယှဉ်-သော စိတ်၊ မေတ္တာစိတ်၊ မေတ္တာဈာန်။(တိ)(၂) မေတ္တာ စိတ်-မေတ္တာနှင့်ယှဉ်သောစိတ်-ရှိသော၊ ချစ်မြတ်နိုးစိတ်ရှိသော၊ သူ။

(Auto-Translation): (1) The mind that is characterized by love and is compareable to it, loving mind, affectionate heart. (2) A person who has love towards love, possesses a loving heart, and cherishes others.

2) mettācitta—

(Burmese text): မေတ္တာစိတ်၊ ချစ်မြတ်နိုးစိတ်၊ မေတ္တာစက္ခု-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): Compassion, love, deep affection - love is sacred.

context information

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: Metta, Citta.

Starts with: Mettacittanubhava, Mettacittapatilabha, Mettacittavantu.

Full-text: Mettacittavantu, Mettacittanubhava, Dosantara, Pharana, Metta.

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