Mokkha: 4 definitions
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Mokkha means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarymokkha : (m.) release; freedom; deliverance; the final release.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary1) Mokkha, 2 (adj.) (fr. mukha 6; Vṛddhi form=*maukhya) the headmost, first, foremost, in series aggo seṭṭho m. uttamo A. II, 95, where the customary tradition reads pāmokkha (see under mahā & cp. Nd2 502A). (Page 541)
2) Mokkha, 1 (late Vedic & Epic Sk. mokṣa, fr. muc, see muñcati. Dhtp 539 mokkha=mocana; Dhtm 751= moca) 1. (lit.) release, freedom from, in bandhanā m. D. I, 73=M. I, 276.�2. (fig.) release, deliverance, salvation Vbh. 426 (jarā-maraṇa° from old age & death); DhA. I, 4 (°magga+sagga-magga, the way to heaven & salvation), 89, 90 (°dhamma=salvation) Mhvs 5, 61.�3. (lit.) (act.) letting loose, emission, uttering (of speech) J. I, 375.�4. it may (& prob. ought to) be taken as adj. (=*mokṣya, grd. of Caus. of muc) at Sn. 773 (añña°, either=1, as “deliverance for others, � or=4, as “to be delivered by others. � Bdhgh at SnA 516 gives both explanations: aññe mocetu� (na) sakkonti, kāraṇa-vacana� vā eta�: aññena mocetabbā (na) honti). (Page 541)
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarymokkha (မောက္�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[muca+ta．mokkha+a．mucamocane,hīnamajjhamatāvehi muccatīti mokkho,to,tassa kho,mokkha mocane vā,a�,ṭī．696．muccanti etthaç etena vā rāgādītīti mokkho�,ṭī．6．]
[မု�+တ။ မောက္�+အ။ မုစမောစနေ၊ ဟီနမဇ္ဈမတာဝေဟ� မုစ္စတီတ� မောက္ခော၊ တော၊ တ� ခေါ၊ မောက္� မောစန� ဝါ၊ အ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၉၆။ မုစ္စန္တ� ဧတ္�,ဧတေ� ဝ� ရာဂါဒီတီတ� မောက္ခော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆။]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)ǰ�
(Burmese text): (�) လွတ်မြောက်ခြင်း။ (�) လွတ်စေခြင်း၊ လွှတ်ခြင်း။ (�) နိဗ္ဗာန်။ (�) ပြီးဆုံးခြင်း၊ အဆုံး၊ အဆုံးသတ� လွတ်မြောက်မှ� ၊အဆုံးသတ်ပန်းတိုက်၊ သံသရာမ� လွတ်မြောက်မှု။ (�) မြတ်သော၊ ပြဓာန်းသော။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Liberation. (2) Deliverance, release. (3) Nirvana. (4) Cessation, end, ultimate liberation, final termination, release from the cycle. (5) Noble, blessed. Please refer to the original.
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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Partial matches: Muca, Dhavala.
Starts with (+10): Mokkhabhimukha, Mokkhacika, Mokkhadhamma, Mokkhadhammadesaka, Mokkhadhammadhigama, Mokkhadhammagavesana, Mokkhadhigama, Mokkhadhigamanattha, Mokkhadhippaya, Mokkhagamana, Mokkhagavesi, Mokkhahetu, Mokkhaka, Mokkhama, Mokkhamagga, Mokkhamaggacariya, Mokkhamaggagamana, Mokkhamaggatti, Mokkhamaggavarana, Mokkhana.
Full-text (+30): Mutta, Ummuka, Patimukka, Amutta, Patimokkha, Vimokkha, Adhimutta, ṇaǰ, Mokkhamagga, Vimutta, Mokkhati, Mokkhacika, Nissayamutta, Avamukka, Apattimokkha, Mokkhahetu, Mokkhasukha, Mokkhappavesa, Mokkhadhamma, Mokkhana.
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