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mitra

mitra noun: a person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.

Noun

mitra (plural mitras)

  1. A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Mitra

Mitra

  1. A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.
    • [In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position1989, Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam, “Bhairava's Royal Brahmanicide,”, in Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees, page 200
  2. (uncommon) A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.
    • when about 1350 B.C. a treaty was concluded between the king of Mittanni [...] and the Hittite ruler [...], the former calls upon the gods Mitra, Indra, Varuna, and the Nâsatya as guarantors of his sworn obligations.1963, Jørgen Læssøe, People of Ancient Assyria: Their Inscriptions and Correspondence, Routledge,, page 86
  3. (alternative, rare) Alternative form of Mithra (“Iranian deity”).
    • As the Avestan Mitra had a luminous character, so had the Vedic Mitra.1923, John Nicol Farquhar, The Religious Quest of India, OUP, page 120
    • We cannot account for Roman Mithras in terms borrowed from Persian Mitra.2001, Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries, page 7

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Mitra

Mitra

  1. A surname from Sanskrit.

Forms of mitra

pluralmitras

Origin of mitra

Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitrá, “friend”).

Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitra). Doublet of Mithra and Mithras.

Transliteration of Bengali মিত্র (mitro).

Phrases with mitra

Questions about mitra

What does mitra mean?
Mitra means a person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.
What part of speech is mitra?
Mitra can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of mitra?
The plural of mitra is mitras.

Words near mitra in the dictionary

  1. mitpachot
  2. mitpallel
  3. mitpallelim
  4. mitqal
  5. mitqals
  6. mitra
  7. mitraciliatine
  8. mitragynaline
  9. mitragynine
  10. mitraillade
  11. mitraillades

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