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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

Belonging to the Vanni.

Source: Journey to Nibbana: Patthana Dhama

Color;

Source: Pali Kanon: Introducing Buddhist Abhidhamma

lit: 'colour'; Property of matter (rupa).

context information

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).

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Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

vaṇṇa : (m.) colour; appearance; colour of the skin; sort; caste; a letter; quality.

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

Vaṇṇa, (cp. Vedic varṇa, of vṛ: see vuṇāti. Customary definition as “vaṇṇane” at Dhtp 572) appearance etc. (lit. “cover, coating”). There is a considerable fluctuation of meaning, especially between meanings 2, 3, 4. One may group as follows.—1. colour Sn. 447 (meda°); S. V, 216 (chavi° of the skin); A. III, 324 (saṅkha°); Th. 1, 13 (nīl’abbha°); Vv 45¹⁰ (danta°=ivory white); Pv IV. 3⁹; DhA. II, 3 (aruṇa°); SnA 319 (chavi°); VvA. 2 (vicitta°); PvA. 215. Six colours are usually enumerated as vaṇṇā, viz. nīla pīta lohitaka odāta mañjeṭṭha pabhassara Ps. I, 126; cp. the 6 colours under rūpa at Dhs. 617 (where kāḷaka for pabbassara); J. I, 12 (chabbaṇṇa-buddha-rasmiyo). Groups of five see under pañca 3 (cp. J. I, 222).—dubbaṇṇa of bad colour, ugly S. I, 94; A. V, 61; Ud. 76; Sn. 426; It. 99; Pug. 33; VvA. 9; PvA. 32, 68. Opp. suvaṇṇa of beautiful colour, lovely A. V, 61; It. 99. Also as term for “silver. ” — As t. t. in descriptions or analyses (perhaps better in meaning “appearance”) in Abl. vaṇṇato by colour, with saṇṭhānato and others: Vism. 184 (“kāḷa vā odāta vā maṅguracchavi vā”), 243=VbhA. 225; Nett 27.—2. appearance S. I, 115 (kassaka-vaṇṇaṃ abhinimminitvā); J. I, 84 (id. with māṇavaka°); Pv. II, 1¹⁰ (=chavi-vaṇṇa PvA. 71); III, 3² (kanakassa sannibha); VvA. 16; cp. °dhātu.—3. lustre, splendour (cp. next meaning) D. III, 143 (suvaṇṇa°, or=1); Pv. II, 9⁶² (na koci devo vaṇṇena sambuddhaṃ atirocati); III, 9¹ (suriya°); Vv 29¹ (=sarīr’obhāsa VvA. 122); PvA. 10 (suvaṇṇa°), 44.—4. beauty (cp. vaṇṇavant) D. II, 220 (abhikkanta°); M. I, 142 (id.); D. III, 68 (āyu+); Pv. II, 9¹⁰ (=rūpa-sampatti PvA. 117). Sometimes combined with other ideals, as (in set of 5): āyu, sukha, yasa, sagga A. III, 47; or āyu, yasa, sukha, ādhipacca J. IV, 275, or (4): āyu, sukha, bala A. III, 63.—5. expression, look, specified as mukha°, e.g. S. III, 2, 235; IV, 275 sq.; A. V, 342; Pv III, 9¹; PvA. 122. ‹-› 6. colour of skin, appearance of body, complexion M. II, 32 (parama), 84 (seṭṭha); A. III, 33 (dibba); IV, 396 (id.); Sn. 610 (doubtful, more likely because of its combination with sara to below 8!), 686 (anoma°); Vism. 422 (evaṃ°=odato vā sāmo vā). Cp. °pokkharatā. ‹-› In special sense applied as distinguishing mark of race or species, thus also constituting a mark of class (caste) distinction & translatable as “(social) grade, rank, caste” (see on term Dial. I. 27, 99 sq.; cp. Vedic ārya varṇa and dāsa varṇa RV II. 12, 9; III, 34, 9: see Zimmer, Altind. Leben 113 and in greater detail Macdonell & Keith, Vedic Index II. 247 sq.). The customary enumeration is of 4 such grades, viz. khattiyā brāhmaṇā vessā suddā Vin. II, 239; A. IV, 202; M. II, 128, but cp. Dial. I. 99 sq.—See also Vin. IV, 243 (here applied as general term of “grade” to the alms-bowls: tayo pattassa vaṇṇā, viz. ukkaṭṭha, majjhima, omaka; cp. below 7); D. I, 13, 91; J. VI, 334; Miln. 225 (khattiya°, brāhmaṇa°).—7. kind, sort Miln. 128 (nānā°), cp. Vin. IV, 243, as mentioned under 6.—8. timbre (i.e. appearance) of voice, contrasted to sara intonation, accent; may occasionally be taken as “vowel. ” See A. I, 229 (+sara); IV, 307 (id.); Sn. 610 (id. but may mean “colour of skin”: see 6), 1132 (giraṃ vaṇṇ’upasaṃhitaṃ, better than meaning “comment”); Miln. 340 (+sara). ‹-› 9. constitution, likeness, property; adj. (-°) “like”: aggi° like fire Pv III, 6⁶ (=aggi-sadisa PvA. 203).—10. (“good impression”) praise DhA. I, 115 (magga°); usually combined and contrasted with avaṇṇa blame, e.g. D. I, 1, 117, 174; A. I, 89; II, 3; III, 264; IV, 179, 345; DA. I, 37.—11. reason (“outward appearance”) S. I, 206 (=kāraṇa K. S. I. 320); Vv 84⁶ (=kāraṇa VvA. 336); Pv IV. 1⁶ (id. PvA. 220); IV, 1⁴⁸.

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

1) vaṇṇa (ဝဏ္ဏ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[vaṇṇa+bhāsana]
[ဝဏ္ဏ+ဘာသန]

2) vaṇṇa (ဝဏ္ဏ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vaṇṇa+ṇa]
[ဝဏ္ဏ+ဏ]

3) vaṇṇa (ဝဏ္ဏ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[vaṇṇa+ṇa．vaṇṇiyati kathiyati attho etehīti vaṇṇā．nīti,sutta．1．atthaṃ vaṇṇenti pakāsentīti vaṇṇā．nirutti．1．vaṇṇīyati pakāsīyati attho yena,so vaṇṇo．ṭī．348．sūci．aññamaññamasaṅkarato vaṇṇetabbato ṭhapetabbato vaṇṇā．ṭī．332．vaṇṇitabbo daṭṭhabboti vaṇṇo．vibhāvinī．2va6．vaṇṇa+a．vaṇṇanaṃ dīgharassādivasena saṇṭhahanaṃ (saṇṭhāpanaṃ) vaṇṇo．vaṇṇeti vikāraṃ āpajjamānaṃ hadayaṅgata bhāvaṃ pakāsetīti vaṇṇo．vaṇṇiyati asaṃkarato vavatthapīyatīti vaṇṇo．vaṇṇiyati phalaṃ etena yathāsabhāvato vibhāyatīti vaṇṇo．vaṇṇīyati aḍḍhamahantādivasena pamiyatīti vaṇṇo．vaṇṇanaṃ kittiyā ugghosananti vaṇṇo．nīti,dhātu．3vava．sūci．vaṇṇitabbo ]]ayamīdiso]]ti pakāsetabbeti vaṇṇo．vaṇṇīyati appamahantādivasena pamīyatīti vaṇṇo．vaṇṇīyati pasaṃsīyatīti vaṇṇo．vaṇṇanaṃ guṇasaṃkittanaṃ vaṇṇo．dī,ṭī,1．5va．sī,ṭī,,1．188．(dī,ṭī,3．148．saṃ,ṭī,1．42．aṃ,ṭī,2．213)．vara+ṇa．virūpattaṃ vāretīti vaṇṇo．ṇvādi．65．vaṇa-saṃ．vaṇṇa-prā,addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝဏ္ဏ+ဏ။ ဝဏ္ဏိယတိ ကထိယတိ အတ္ထော ဧတေဟီတိ ဝဏ္ဏာ။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။ ၁။ အတ္ထံ ဝဏ္ဏေန္တိ ပကာသေန္တီတိ ဝဏ္ဏာ။ နိရုတ္တိ။ ၁။ ဝဏ္ဏီယတိ ပကာသီယတိ အတ္ထော ယေန၊ သော ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၃၄၈။ သူစိ။ အညမညမသင်္ကရတော ဝဏ္ဏေတဗ္ဗတော ဌပေတဗ္ဗတော ဝဏ္ဏာ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၃၃၂။ ဝဏ္ဏိတဗ္ဗော ဒဋ္ဌဗ္ဗောတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝိဘာဝိနီ။ ၂ဝ၆။ ဝဏ္ဏ+အ။ ဝဏ္ဏနံ ဒီဃရဿာဒိဝသေန သဏ္ဌဟနံ (သဏ္ဌာပနံ) ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏေတိ ဝိကာရံ အာပဇ္ဇမာနံ ဟဒယင်္ဂတ ဘာဝံ ပကာသေတီတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏိယတိ အသံကရတော ဝဝတ္ထပီယတီတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏိယတိ ဖလံ ဧတေန ယထာသဘာဝတော ဝိဘာယတီတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏီယတိ အဍ္ဎမဟန္တာဒိဝသေန ပမိယတီတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏနံ ကိတ္တိယာ ဥဂ္ဃေါသနန္တိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ နီတိ၊ဓာတု။၃ဝဝ။ သူစိ။ဝဏ္ဏိတဗ္ဗော ＂အယမီဒိသော＂တိ ပကာသေတဗ္ဗေတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏီယတိ အပ္ပမဟန္တာဒိဝသေန ပမီယတီတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏီယတိ ပသံသီယတီတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဝဏ္ဏနံ ဂုဏသံကိတ္တနံ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဒီ၊ဋီ၊၁။၅ဝ။ သီ၊ဋီ၊သစ်၊၁။၁၈၈။ (ဒီ၊ဋီ၊၃။၁၄၈။ သံ၊ဋီ၊၁။၄၂။ အံ၊ဋီ၊၂။၂၁၃)။ ဝရ+ဏ။ ဝိရူပတ္တံ ဝါရေတီတိ ဝဏ္ဏော။ ဏွာဒိ။၆၅။ ဝဏ-သံ။ ဝဏ္ဏ-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]

[Pali to Burmese]

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

1) vaṇṇa—

(Burmese text): (၁) ချီးမွမ်းခြင်း။ (၂) အမျိုးဇာတ်၊ အမျိုးစု (ကုလဝဂ္ဂ)။ (၃) အကြောင်း။ (၄) ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်၊ အခြင်းအရာ။ (၅) အတိုင်းအရှည်၊ ပမာဏ။ (၆) အဆင်း၊ ရူပါရုံ။ (၇) ကိုယ်၏ အဆင်း၊ အရေအဆင်း။ (ဂ) ရွှေ၊ (၉) ကျေးဇူး၊ ဂုဏ်ကျေးဇူး။ (၁ဝ) အက္ခရာ၊ စာလုံး။ (၁၁) သဲ။ (၁၂) လှပခြင်း (ကိုယ်အဆင်း၏ ပြည့်စုံခြင်း)။ (၁၃) ပြည့်စုံခြင်း။ (၁၄) အသပြာ၊ ပိုက်ဆံ၊ ငွေ။ (၁၅) အဖွင့်,အကျယ်ချဲ့ခြင်း (ဋီကာ) (၁၆) ပကာရ=အပြား။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Praise. (2) Species, group (family). (3) Cause. (4) Form, condition. (5) Dimension, size. (6) Shape, appearance. (7) Body shape, physique. (8) Gold, (9) Kindness, gratitude. (10) Letter, character. (11) Sand. (12) Beauty (completeness of body). (13) Completeness. (14) Decoration, money, cash. (15) Expansion, widening (for space). (16) Volume = panel. Please refer to the original.

2) vaṇṇa—

(Burmese text): (၁) အဆင်းရှိ-အဆင်းလှ-အဆင်းကောင်း-သော။ (၂) အဆင်း-လှပခြင်း-၏ အကြောင်းဖြစ်သော။ (၁) ဝဏ္ဏသာဋက-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Elegant - beautiful - good-looking. (2) The reason for beauty. (1) Referring to appearance.

3) vaṇṇa—

(Burmese text): ကျေးဇူး-ဂုဏ်ကျေးဇူး-ကို ပြောဆိုခြင်း။

(Auto-Translation): Expressing gratitude and appreciation.

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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vanna (वन्न).—[Uṇādi-sūtra 2.28] A co-partner.

Derivable forms: vannaḥ (वन्नः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vanna (वन्न).—m.

(-nnaḥ) A co-partner, a co-heir, &c. E. vat to ask, ran Unadi aff.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vannā (वन्ना):—f. Name of a woman, [Catalogue(s)]

[Sanskrit to German]

Vanna in German

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Prakrit-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

1) Vaṇṇa (वण्ण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Varṇa.

2) Vaṇṇa (वण्ण) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Varṇa.

3) Vaṇṇa (वण्ण) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Varṇa.

context information

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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Vaṇṇa (ವಣ್ಣ):—

1) [noun] the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths; colour.

2) [noun] the colour that resembles blod; red.

3) [noun] a pigment suspended in a liquid medium and applied with or as with a brush, roller, etc. as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art; a paint.

4) [noun] a picture painted on a canvas, paper, etc. applying paints; a painting.

5) [noun] any coloured cloth or clothing.

6) [noun] a colourful flower.

7) [noun] a sort; a variety; a class; a kind.

8) [noun] the original form or state of being.

9) [noun] the quality of a thing that attracts; beauty.

10) [noun] brightness; lustre; shininess.

11) [noun] pretentious behaviour or speech; pretension; hypocrisy.

12) [noun] a song in praise of.

13) [noun] the power to do something, grasp immediately and comprehensively, etc.; mental ability.

14) [noun] a person whose achievement or merit excels another or others.

15) [noun] purity of gold, silver (as expressed with the unit 'carat').

16) [noun] that which is apt, appropriate.

17) [noun] any of the four major classes (brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śudra) of old Hindu society.

18) [noun] the quality of being pleasant to the ears; melody.

19) [noun] a group, faction, clan.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vanna, Bhashana, Na.

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Full-text (+623): Pancavanna, Vivanna, Vannaka, Vaṇṇeti, Vannasampanna, Meghavanna, Vanni, Vannaniya, Vannakaraka, Vannabhasana, Dantavanna, Avanna, Vannadhatu, Vaṇṇita, Vannada, Vaṇṇu, Dubbaṇṇa, Vannakasina, Manivanna, Anomavanna.

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