English Explanatory Dictionary

mitra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.
name
  1. A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.
  2. A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.
  3. Alternative form of Mithra (“Iranian deity”).
name
  1. A surname from Sanskrit.

Word forms

mitra mitras

Etymology

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

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary