Jamma: 7 definitions
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Jamma means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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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Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryjamma : (adj.) vulgar; contemptible.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryJamma, (adj.) (Vedic *jālma (?), dialectical?) miserable, wretched, contemptible J. II, 110; III, 99 (=lāmaka); f. —� S. V, 217; Dh. 335, 336 (of taṇhā); J. II, 428; V, 421; DhA. IV, 44 (=lāmakā). (Page 279)
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) jamma (ဇမ္�) [(ti) (တ�)]�
[jama+ma．jamu+ma．jameti abhakkhitabba� adatīti jammo．ṇvādi�136．jamaadane,mo�,ṭī．516,729．jamu adane,mo．sūci．jamati abhakkhitabba� adatīti jammo,nihīno,anisammakārī ca．dhātvatthasaṅgaha．thī-nitea jammāç jammī]
[ဇ�+မ။ ဇမ�+မ။ ဇမေတ� အဘက္ခိတဗ္ဗ� အဒတီတ� ဇမ္မော။ ဏွာဒိ။၁၃၆။ ဇမအဒနေ၊ မော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၅၁၆၊၇၂၉။ ဇမ� အဒနေ၊ မော။ သူစိ။ ဇမတ� အဘက္ခိတဗ္ဗ� အဒတီတ� ဇမ္မော၊ နိဟီနော၊ အနိသမ္မကာရ� စ။ ဓာတွတ္ထသင်္ဂဟ။ ထ�-� ဇမ္မ�,ဇမ္မီ]
2) jammā (ဇမ္မ�) [(thī) (ထ�)]�
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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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary1) Jamma (जम्म) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Jan.
2) Jamma (जम्म) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Jam.
3) Jamma (जम्म) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Janman.
4) Jammā (जम्म�) also relates to the Sanskrit word: 峾.
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
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusJamma (ಜಮ್ಮ):—[noun] a gift of land given by a king to a person.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryJammā (जम्म�):—adv. total; collected; gathered together; accumulated; n. 1. collection; the act of gathering; 2. addition; 3. total amount;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Jama, Jamma, A.
Starts with: Jamma-garnu, Jammaadaayitv, Jammadayitva, Jammadisu, Jammagara, Jammai, Jammajammi, Jammakharca, Jammakharch, Jammakkaraya, Jamman, Jammana, Jammi.
Full-text: Jammi, Dharauti-jamma, Jamma-garnu, Dharuti-jamma, Yamya, Janman, Jam, Jan, Netti.
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