เวทนา

Thai

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • เพทนา

Etymology

From Pali vedanā (“ache; agony; misery; pain; soreness; suffering; etc”) or Sanskrit वेदना (vedanā, idem); possibly via Old Khmer veddanā (“feeling, sensation; ache, agony, misery, pain, soreness, suffering”). Cognate with Modern Khmer វេទនា (veitniə).

Pronunciation
Orthographicเวทนา
e w d n ā
Phonemicเว-ทะ-นา
e w – d a – n ā		เวด-ทะ-นา
e w ɗ – d a – n ā
RomanizationPaiboonwee-tá-naawêet-tá-naa
Royal Institutewe-tha-nawet-tha-na
(standard) IPA(key)/weː˧.tʰa˦˥.naː˧//weːt̚˥˩.tʰa˦˥.naː˧/

Usage notes
  • The noun is pronounced wee-tá-naa.
  • The verb is pronounced wêet-tá-naa.

Noun

เวทนา • (wee-tá-naa)

  1. (Buddhism) feeling, sensation, or emotion, being one of the five ขันธ์ (“aggregates”) that constitute a sentient being; the other four being รูป (rûup, “form; body”), สัญญา (sǎn-yaa, “perception”), สังขาร (sǎng-kǎan, “impulse”), and วิญญาณ (win-yaan, “consciousness”).
  2. (elegant) feeling; sensation; emotion.
  3. (elegant) ache; agony; misery; pain; soreness; suffering.
  4. (literature) pathos.

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • ทุกขเวทนา

Verb

เวทนา • (wêet-tá-naa) (abstract noun การเวทนา or ความเวทนา)

  1. to feel pity (for, on, etc); to take pity (on); to ache (for); to commiserate.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.