Content-type: text/html Search Results for Dictionary of Old Khmer Searching Old Khmer for "vrah" (as ""(?:[^"]*(?:-| ))*()*vrah\d?(?:(?:-| )[^"]*)*"")
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vraḥ ~ vraḥh ~ vrah ~ vrahh ~ vrāʼaḥ ~ brā ~ bra /wrah/ PA3480     [Angkorian vraḥ ~ vraḥha ~ vraḥh ~ vrah ~ vras ~ vrāḥ ~ braḥ ~ braḥh ~ brah; mod. Khmer ព្រះ braḥ /preəh/ ``adj. to be holy, sacred, divine; n. celestial / holy being ...'; pfx /w‑/ + *raḥ /rah/;1 cf. Thai พระ /pʰráʔ/2 ]. definitions 1 n. Divine/royal being or object, occurring as headword of a noun phrase. 2 n. Image, liṅga. 3 n. Sanctuary, temple, shrine, as housing a divinity. 4 pro. A divine or royal one: the sovereign; one in holy orders.3 references bra: K.388B:11 (A.D. 578-677, C VI:74, JA, 1958:127); brā: K.388B:10, 16 (id.); vrāʼaḥ: K.389C:10 (A.D. 578-677, C VI:78, JA, 1958:127);4 vrahh: K.664:3 (A.D. 578-777, C V:69); K.728:2 (A.D. 678-777, C V:83); vrah: K.710:9 (A.D. 578-677, C VI:49); vraḥh: K.38:6 (A.D. 578-677, C II:45); K.811:6 (A.D. 578-777, C VI:63); K.726A:12, 18, B:4 (A.D. 678-777, C V:75); vraḥ: passim, 412 occurrences. citations bra kyāk śrī vṛddheśvara (K.388B:11), `the holy kyāk of Śrī Vṛddheśvara'. srau brā (K.388B:10)5 ~ sro brā (K.388B:16) ~ sro vrāʼaḥ (K.389C:9-10), toponym (?). ... ge cuḥ taṅai vrahh (K.664:3), `... they are to keep record of the holy days'. droṅ vrahh doṅ gi ʼāśrama ai pañcarā[tra] (K.728:2), `The landholdings of the divinity and the āśrama at Pañcarātra'. ... pañjāhv teṃ satra vraḥh (K.726A:12, 18), `... which [they] parted with for an offering to the divinity'. notes 1 Perhaps a calque on Skt śrī. 2 Not also Old Javanese bra, a form of limited distribution found `before the names of royal persons' (Zoetmulder, I:254a); `King; title of kings ...' (Wojowasito, 395; cf. Juynboll, 412b); possibly also Burmese bhurā /phəyà/ `god; temple'. 3 Pou 344b (bra ~ brā), 462a (vraḥ ~ vrah); LS 435 (bra and brā), 546-8 (vraḥ ~ vraḥh ~ vrah). 4 Pou, 464b (vrā-aḥ): `F. dialectale de vraḥ ...'; LS, 550: `n.l. dieu, saint; (forme dialectale du mot vraḥ)'. 5 The form corresponds to srau vrā in lines D:17-8 of the Sanskrit text, as well as with sro vraʼaḥ in K.389C:9-10,
vrah A3728     definitions see: vraḥ
vraḥ ~ vraḥha ~ vraḥh ~ vrah ~ vras ~ vrāḥ ~ braḥ ~ braḥh ~ brah /wrah ~ brah/ A3741     [Pre-Angkorian vraḥ ~ vrah ~ vraḥh ~ vrahh; mod. Khmer ព្រះ braḥ /preəh/ ``adj. to be holy, sacred, divine; n. celestial / holy being ...''; pfx /w‑/ + *raḥ /rah/;1 cf. Thai พระ /pʰráʔ/2 ]. definitions 1 n. Divine/royal being or object, occurring as headword of a noun phrase.3 2 n. Image, liṅga; sanctuary, temple, shrine, as housing a divinity. 3 pro., A divine or royal one: the sovereign; one in holy orders.4 see: kaṃvraḥ references passim, as follows: brah: 1 occurrence; braḥh: 2 occurrences; braḥ: 134 occurrences; vrāḥ: 3 occurrences; vras: 1 occurrence;5 vrah: 11 occurrences; vraḥh: 12 occurrences; vraḥha: 1 occurrence; vraḥ: 3,001 occurrences. citations vraḥ karuṇāprasāda, `royal benefice'. vraḥ kaṃmrateṅ ʼañ, `My Holy High Lord'. vraḥ pāda, literally `the sacred/royal feet', conventionally `His Majesty'. vraḥ pāda kaṃmrateṅ kaṃtvan ʼañ, `His Majesty My Holy High Lord in the female line'. vraḥ guru, `royal spiritual preceptor'. vraḥ paṃnvas, `holy cleric'. vraḥ bhagavatī, `the divine Bhagavatī'. vraḥ rājakāryya, `the (holy/royal) royal service', 38 occurrences. vraḥ liṅga, `sacred liṅga'. vraḥ stau (jrai), `sacred margosa (fig) tree'. khñuṃ vraḥ, `slaves of the divinity; sanctuary slave(s)'. notes 1 Perhaps a calque on Skt śrī. 2 See Haas, 357b; McFarland, 566b; Sethaputra, II:795a. Note Old Javanese bra, a form of limited distribution found `before the names of royal persons' (Zoetmulder, I:254a), `King; title of kings ...' (Wojowasito, 395; cf. Juynboll, 412b); note also Malay bĕra (Wilkinson, I:123a) and (possibly) Burmese bhurā /phəyà/ `god; temple'. 3 All attempts to express vraḥ as a nominal head in a western language have been unsuccessful. I have found no alternative to rendering it as if it were an adjective: `holy, sacred, divine; royal'. 4 Cf. Pou, 462a, and her ``Toponymie khmère,'' 424, and ``Recherches ... (IX),'' 343-5. 5 K.571:4 (A.D. 978-1077, MA I, № 2:74), vras anrāy.