กรวดนํ้า v. pouring the water of dedication (to transfer merit to other beings).
กฐิน the Kathin ceremony; the annual robe-presentation ceremony (in the month following the end of the Rains Retreat); postlenten robe-offering; Post-Retreat Robe- Presentation.
กระถางธูป incensory; censer.
กตัญญู adj. grateful; obliging; knowing the done favour.
กตัญญูกตเวทิตา the quality of being a grateful person; gratitude; gratefulness.
กราบ to bow to the ground; to pay respect by making the five-point prostration; to prostrate.
กรุณา compassion; pity.
กษัตริย์ 1. a man of the warrior caste; the warrior-ruler; nobles. 2. a king.
กุศล adj. wholesome; meritorious; moral; skilful; kammically wholesome. n. merit; good action; virtue; the good; wholesome
action.
กุศลกรรม wholesome or meritorious action; right conduct.
กิเลส defilements; impurities; impairments.
ขันธ์ aggregate; category.
ขมา patience; tolerance; pardon.
ขมา, การขอ asking for pardon.
ของขลัง something said to have magic power; magic object; amulet; talisman; charm; fetish.
ขัดสมาธิ to sit (flat on the haunches) cross-legged.
ขันติ patience; forbearance; tolerance;
ข้างขึ้น the waxing moon.
ข้างแรม the waning moon.
คณะ group; denomination; monastery section.
คณะสงฆ์ the monastic order; the Church, especially the Buddhist monastic order; the Order; the Saïgha.
เครื่องราง an amulet; talisman.
คัมภีร์ a scripture; text; canon; religious book.
ฆราวาส 1. the household life. 2. a householder; layman; the laity.
งานมงคล auspicious ceremony; festive occasion.
งานวัด temple fair.
งานศพ funeral; obsequies; cremation ceremony.
งานสมรส wedding; marriage ceremony.
งานอวมงคล funeral; rites for the dead; funereal occasion; memorial service; inauspicious occasion.
จงกรม walking up and down; a terraced walk. v. to walk up and down.
จารึก v. to inscribe; incise; engrave.
จำ พรรษา, การ Vassa-residence; the rains-retreat; rains-residence; keeping the Buddhist Lent; keeping the rainy season;
dwelling permanently at a suitable place throughout the three months of the rainy season.
จำ วัด v. (of a monk or novice) to sleep.
จิต, จิตต์ thought; mind; a state of consciousness.
เจดีย์ 1. a person, place or object worthy of worship; reminder. 2. (T.) a sepulchral monument; pagoda; shrine; dagoba;
bell-shaped stupa (with a slender spire); tapering-spired stupa; Phra Chedi.
จีวร 1. the yellow robe (of a Buddhist monk or novice); any of the three garments of the monk. 2. (T.) the upper or inner robe.
เจ้าภาพ the host; sponsor; chief donor.
เจ้าอธิการ the abbot who is an Ecclesiastical Sub-District Chief as well.
เจ้าอาวาส the abbot.
เจิม v. to anoint; n. anointment.
แจง preaching or chanting on the account of the First Council of Buddhism.
โจทก์ reprover; accuser; plaintiff.
โจทนา reproof; charge; accusation; plaint.
ช่อฟ้า the curved
ชาดก 1. a birth story; the stories of the Buddha’s previous lives. 2. “Birth Stories”; name of the tenth division of the Khuddaka Nikàya.
ชาติ birth; rebirth.
ชาติก่อน a previous birth; former life.
ชาติหน้า rebirth; reexistence; future life.
ชี a shaven-headed female devotee who wears white robes and observes five or eight precepts; white-robed female lay follower.
ชีวิต life; vitality.
ชีวิตินทรีย์ vitality; life-principle; psychic life; the faculty of life.
ชุกชี base (for the principal Buddha image); pedestal.
เชิงเทียน candlestick.
เชิงบาตร bowl-support; bowlstand.
ฌาปนกิจ cremation.
ฌาปนสถาน crematorium.
ญาติ a kinsman; relative.
ฐาน pedestal (as of a Buddha image).
ดาบส a hermit; ascetic.
ดาวดึงส์ the realm (or heaven) of the Thirty-three Gods; name of the second heavenly abode, of which Sakka is the king.
เด็กวัด temple boy
ตักบาตร v. to offer food to the monks on their almsround.
ตัณหา craving; desire; thirst.
ตรัสรู้ Enlightenment. v. to be enlightened; attain enlightenment.
ไตรภพ, ไตรภูมิ the Three Spheres, viz., the Sense Sphere, the Form Sphere and the Formless Sphere; three realms; three worlds; three planes of existence.
โตะ๊ หมูบู่ชา a set of altar tables.
ไตรจีวร the three robes of a Bhikkhu, consisting of the under, the upper and the outer robes; Triple Robe.
ไตรปิฎก lit. the Three Baskets; the Tipiñaka; the three divisions of the Buddhist Canon, viz., Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma, generally known as the Pali Canon.
ถวาย v. to offer, give or present (to a monk or a prince).
ถวายพระเพลิง the cremation ceremony.
เถระ an elder; a senior member of the Order; a senior monk (of at least ten years’ standing).
เถรวาท the Doctrine of the Elders; Teaching of the Elders; the Southern School of Buddhism.
ทวาร 1. door; avenue. 2. a sense-door; sense-avenue. 3. door of action.
ทองคำ เปลว gold leaf.
ทาน giving; gift; alms-giving; charity; generosity; benevolence; liberality; a gift; donation; alms; benefaction.
ทำ บุญ (Pu¤¤akaraõa) merit-making; performing
meritorious action. v. to make merit; do merit;
do good; perform meritorious action.
ทำ บุญขึ้นบ้านใหม่ housewarming ceremony.
ทำ บุญบ้าน house-blessing ceremony.
ทำ วัตรคํ่า, ทำ วัตรเย็น evening chanting.
ทำ วัตรเช้า morning chanting.
เทพ lit. a shining one; god; deity; divine being.
เทวดา a celestial or heavenly being; deity.
ธรรม the Dharma
ธุดงค์ (the thirteen)Austere Practices; constituents of ascetic practice to remove defilements.
ธูป an incense-stick; joss-stick.
นมัสการ salutation; the act of paying homage; homage; veneration; (T.) salutation with joined palms.
นักบวช a religious; priest; monk.
นักพรต one who takes up a religious practice or observes a religious vow; ascetic; recluse; hermit.
นักสวด a chanter.
นิพพาน (Nibbàna) Nirvàõa; Nibbàna; the extinction of the fires of greed, of hatred and of ignorance; the Unconditioned; the
supreme goal of Buddhism; the Summum Bonum of Buddhism; the Final Goal; the extinction of all defilements and suffering.
นิมนต์, การ (Nimantana) invitation (for a monk). v. to invite (a monk).
นาค (Nàga) 1. a serpentlike water-god. 2. (T.) an applicant (or candidate) for ordination; ordinand.
บรมธาตุ, พระ (Dhàtu) the Buddha’s relics.
บรรพชา (Pabbajjà) 1. leaving the world; going forth; adopting the ascetic life; ordination. 2. the lower ordination; ordination of a novice; admission to novicehood; Initiation.
บรรพชิต (Pabbajita) an ascetic; recluse; monk; the ordained; religious; renunciate; monastic.
บรรลุ to attain; realize; reach; achieve; experience for oneself.
บริวาร 1. retinue; suite; pomp; followers; following. 2. accessories.
บริเวณวัด ) the compound of a monastery; the Wat compound.
บวช, การ giving up the world; adopting the ascetic life; ordination. v. to go forth; give up or renounce the world; become an ascetic, a Bhikkhu or a novice; be ordained; join or enter the Order.
บริจาค donation; charity; sacrifice. v. to donate; give; give up
บาตร a bowl; alms-bowl.
บาป demerit
บารมี Perfections
บูชา worship ; honour; veneration; homage; devotional attention; devotional offering.
บุญ merit; meritorious action; virtue; righteousness; moral acts; good works. adj. meritorious; good.
โบสถ์ (Uposathagga, Uposathàgàra) the uposatha hall; a chapter house; a hall or building in a monastery in which ecclesiastical acts or
ceremonies are performed; consecrated assembly hall; (mis.) church; temple.
ใบสีมา boundarymarking slab (usually made of stone and erected over a buried boundary-marking stone to show its place)
ปฏิสังขรณ์ restoration; reparation; repair; mending.
ปฐมเทศนา the First Sermon; the First Discourse.
ปรินิพพาน the final or complete Nibbàna; the complete extinction of all passions; the final release from the round of rebirth; the Great Decease of the Buddha; death (after the last life-span of an Arhant).
แผ่เมตตา radiation of loving-kindness. v. to wish others (or all beings) to be well and happy.
พรมนํ้ามนต์ to sprinkle the holy water.
พรหม (Brahma) 1. (in Hinduism) Brahma; the Creator; the Universal Self. 2. (in Buddhism) a divine being of the Form Sphere or of the Formless Sphere; brahma god; happy and blameless celestial being; inhabitant of the higher heavens.
พร boon; blessing; favour.
พรหมจรรย์ the Holy Life; sublime life; religious life; celibate life; chaste life; strict chastity; Brahma-faring.
พรหมจารี one who leads a holy or chaste life; celibate; Brahma-farer.
พระพุทธเจ้า (Buddha) the Buddha; Lord Buddha; the Enlightened One; the Awakened One.
พระพุทธบาท the Buddha’s footprint.
พระพุทธปฏิมา a Buddha image.
พระพุทธรูป the figure of the Buddha; a Buddha image.
พระพุทธศาสนา Buddhism; the teaching of the Buddha.
พระสงฆ์ 1. Saïgha; the Order; the monastic order. 2. (T.) a monk.
พราหมณ์ a Brahmin; man of the Brahmin caste; a priest.
พระเครื่อง a small Buddha image (often used as an amulet or talisman); amuletic Buddha image.
พระธรรม (Dhamma) Dhamma; Dharma; the Doctrine; the Teachings; the Law; the Norm.
พระนอน Reclining Buddha.
พระบรมศาสดา the Master; the Teacher; the Great Master; the Buddha.
พับเพียบ v. to sit flat with both legs tucked back to one side; sit sideways.
พระประธาน the principal Buddha image (in the Uposatha hall); main Buddha image.
พระปรางค์ (round-topped) towerlike stupa with a pronged crownpiece; Phra Prang.
พิธี (Vidhàna) arrangement; performance; ceremony.
พิธีกร (Vidhikara*) master of ceremonies.
พิธีกรรม rite; ritual; ceremony.
พุทธศาสนิกชน a Buddhist; adherent of Buddhism.
พุทธบาท the Buddha’s footprint.
พุทธประวัติ the life of the Buddha; life-story of the Buddha.
โพธิ์ (ต้นไม้) (Bodhirukkha) the “Bo” tree; the Bodhi Tree; pipal tree; the Ficus Religiosia.
โพธิสัตว์, พระ (Bodhisatta) the Bodhisatta; Bodhisattva; a Buddha-to-be; Enlightenmentbeing; candidate for Buddhahood; one who has resolved to attain enlightenment for the helping of his fellow beings.
ภพ becoming; existence; process of becoming; state of existence.
ภาวนา development; mental culture; meditation.
มงคล festivity; good omen; auspice; auspicious ceremony; (the thirty-eight) blessings. adj. auspicious.
มณฑป a pavilion; temporary shed
คำศัพท์ภาษาอังกฤษเกี่ยวกับวัด (buddhism vocabulary)
กฐิน the Kathin ceremony; the annual robe-presentation ceremony (in the month following the end of the Rains Retreat); postlenten robe-offering; Post-Retreat Robe- Presentation.
กระถางธูป incensory; censer.
กตัญญู adj. grateful; obliging; knowing the done favour.
กตัญญูกตเวทิตา the quality of being a grateful person; gratitude; gratefulness.
กราบ to bow to the ground; to pay respect by making the five-point prostration; to prostrate.
กรุณา compassion; pity.
กษัตริย์ 1. a man of the warrior caste; the warrior-ruler; nobles. 2. a king.
กุศล adj. wholesome; meritorious; moral; skilful; kammically wholesome. n. merit; good action; virtue; the good; wholesome
action.
กุศลกรรม wholesome or meritorious action; right conduct.
กิเลส defilements; impurities; impairments.
ขันธ์ aggregate; category.
ขมา patience; tolerance; pardon.
ขมา, การขอ asking for pardon.
ของขลัง something said to have magic power; magic object; amulet; talisman; charm; fetish.
ขัดสมาธิ to sit (flat on the haunches) cross-legged.
ขันติ patience; forbearance; tolerance;
ข้างขึ้น the waxing moon.
ข้างแรม the waning moon.
คณะ group; denomination; monastery section.
คณะสงฆ์ the monastic order; the Church, especially the Buddhist monastic order; the Order; the Saïgha.
เครื่องราง an amulet; talisman.
คัมภีร์ a scripture; text; canon; religious book.
ฆราวาส 1. the household life. 2. a householder; layman; the laity.
งานมงคล auspicious ceremony; festive occasion.
งานวัด temple fair.
งานศพ funeral; obsequies; cremation ceremony.
งานสมรส wedding; marriage ceremony.
งานอวมงคล funeral; rites for the dead; funereal occasion; memorial service; inauspicious occasion.
จงกรม walking up and down; a terraced walk. v. to walk up and down.
จารึก v. to inscribe; incise; engrave.
จำ พรรษา, การ Vassa-residence; the rains-retreat; rains-residence; keeping the Buddhist Lent; keeping the rainy season;
dwelling permanently at a suitable place throughout the three months of the rainy season.
จำ วัด v. (of a monk or novice) to sleep.
จิต, จิตต์ thought; mind; a state of consciousness.
เจดีย์ 1. a person, place or object worthy of worship; reminder. 2. (T.) a sepulchral monument; pagoda; shrine; dagoba;
bell-shaped stupa (with a slender spire); tapering-spired stupa; Phra Chedi.
จีวร 1. the yellow robe (of a Buddhist monk or novice); any of the three garments of the monk. 2. (T.) the upper or inner robe.
เจ้าภาพ the host; sponsor; chief donor.
เจ้าอธิการ the abbot who is an Ecclesiastical Sub-District Chief as well.
เจ้าอาวาส the abbot.
เจิม v. to anoint; n. anointment.
แจง preaching or chanting on the account of the First Council of Buddhism.
โจทก์ reprover; accuser; plaintiff.
โจทนา reproof; charge; accusation; plaint.
ช่อฟ้า the curved
ชาดก 1. a birth story; the stories of the Buddha’s previous lives. 2. “Birth Stories”; name of the tenth division of the Khuddaka Nikàya.
ชาติ birth; rebirth.
ชาติก่อน a previous birth; former life.
ชาติหน้า rebirth; reexistence; future life.
ชี a shaven-headed female devotee who wears white robes and observes five or eight precepts; white-robed female lay follower.
ชีวิต life; vitality.
ชีวิตินทรีย์ vitality; life-principle; psychic life; the faculty of life.
ชุกชี base (for the principal Buddha image); pedestal.
เชิงเทียน candlestick.
เชิงบาตร bowl-support; bowlstand.
ฌาปนกิจ cremation.
ฌาปนสถาน crematorium.
ญาติ a kinsman; relative.
ฐาน pedestal (as of a Buddha image).
ดาบส a hermit; ascetic.
ดาวดึงส์ the realm (or heaven) of the Thirty-three Gods; name of the second heavenly abode, of which Sakka is the king.
เด็กวัด temple boy
ตักบาตร v. to offer food to the monks on their almsround.
ตัณหา craving; desire; thirst.
ตรัสรู้ Enlightenment. v. to be enlightened; attain enlightenment.
ไตรภพ, ไตรภูมิ the Three Spheres, viz., the Sense Sphere, the Form Sphere and the Formless Sphere; three realms; three worlds; three planes of existence.
โตะ๊ หมูบู่ชา a set of altar tables.
ไตรจีวร the three robes of a Bhikkhu, consisting of the under, the upper and the outer robes; Triple Robe.
ไตรปิฎก lit. the Three Baskets; the Tipiñaka; the three divisions of the Buddhist Canon, viz., Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma, generally known as the Pali Canon.
ถวาย v. to offer, give or present (to a monk or a prince).
ถวายพระเพลิง the cremation ceremony.
เถระ an elder; a senior member of the Order; a senior monk (of at least ten years’ standing).
เถรวาท the Doctrine of the Elders; Teaching of the Elders; the Southern School of Buddhism.
ทวาร 1. door; avenue. 2. a sense-door; sense-avenue. 3. door of action.
ทองคำ เปลว gold leaf.
ทาน giving; gift; alms-giving; charity; generosity; benevolence; liberality; a gift; donation; alms; benefaction.
ทำ บุญ (Pu¤¤akaraõa) merit-making; performing
meritorious action. v. to make merit; do merit;
do good; perform meritorious action.
ทำ บุญขึ้นบ้านใหม่ housewarming ceremony.
ทำ บุญบ้าน house-blessing ceremony.
ทำ วัตรคํ่า, ทำ วัตรเย็น evening chanting.
ทำ วัตรเช้า morning chanting.
เทพ lit. a shining one; god; deity; divine being.
เทวดา a celestial or heavenly being; deity.
ธรรม the Dharma
ธุดงค์ (the thirteen)Austere Practices; constituents of ascetic practice to remove defilements.
ธูป an incense-stick; joss-stick.
นมัสการ salutation; the act of paying homage; homage; veneration; (T.) salutation with joined palms.
นักบวช a religious; priest; monk.
นักพรต one who takes up a religious practice or observes a religious vow; ascetic; recluse; hermit.
นักสวด a chanter.
นิพพาน (Nibbàna) Nirvàõa; Nibbàna; the extinction of the fires of greed, of hatred and of ignorance; the Unconditioned; the
supreme goal of Buddhism; the Summum Bonum of Buddhism; the Final Goal; the extinction of all defilements and suffering.
นิมนต์, การ (Nimantana) invitation (for a monk). v. to invite (a monk).
นาค (Nàga) 1. a serpentlike water-god. 2. (T.) an applicant (or candidate) for ordination; ordinand.
บรมธาตุ, พระ (Dhàtu) the Buddha’s relics.
บรรพชา (Pabbajjà) 1. leaving the world; going forth; adopting the ascetic life; ordination. 2. the lower ordination; ordination of a novice; admission to novicehood; Initiation.
บรรพชิต (Pabbajita) an ascetic; recluse; monk; the ordained; religious; renunciate; monastic.
บรรลุ to attain; realize; reach; achieve; experience for oneself.
บริวาร 1. retinue; suite; pomp; followers; following. 2. accessories.
บริเวณวัด ) the compound of a monastery; the Wat compound.
บวช, การ giving up the world; adopting the ascetic life; ordination. v. to go forth; give up or renounce the world; become an ascetic, a Bhikkhu or a novice; be ordained; join or enter the Order.
บริจาค donation; charity; sacrifice. v. to donate; give; give up
บาตร a bowl; alms-bowl.
บาป demerit
บารมี Perfections
บูชา worship ; honour; veneration; homage; devotional attention; devotional offering.
บุญ merit; meritorious action; virtue; righteousness; moral acts; good works. adj. meritorious; good.
โบสถ์ (Uposathagga, Uposathàgàra) the uposatha hall; a chapter house; a hall or building in a monastery in which ecclesiastical acts or
ceremonies are performed; consecrated assembly hall; (mis.) church; temple.
ใบสีมา boundarymarking slab (usually made of stone and erected over a buried boundary-marking stone to show its place)
ปฏิสังขรณ์ restoration; reparation; repair; mending.
ปฐมเทศนา the First Sermon; the First Discourse.
ปรินิพพาน the final or complete Nibbàna; the complete extinction of all passions; the final release from the round of rebirth; the Great Decease of the Buddha; death (after the last life-span of an Arhant).
แผ่เมตตา radiation of loving-kindness. v. to wish others (or all beings) to be well and happy.
พรมนํ้ามนต์ to sprinkle the holy water.
พรหม (Brahma) 1. (in Hinduism) Brahma; the Creator; the Universal Self. 2. (in Buddhism) a divine being of the Form Sphere or of the Formless Sphere; brahma god; happy and blameless celestial being; inhabitant of the higher heavens.
พร boon; blessing; favour.
พรหมจรรย์ the Holy Life; sublime life; religious life; celibate life; chaste life; strict chastity; Brahma-faring.
พรหมจารี one who leads a holy or chaste life; celibate; Brahma-farer.
พระพุทธเจ้า (Buddha) the Buddha; Lord Buddha; the Enlightened One; the Awakened One.
พระพุทธบาท the Buddha’s footprint.
พระพุทธปฏิมา a Buddha image.
พระพุทธรูป the figure of the Buddha; a Buddha image.
พระพุทธศาสนา Buddhism; the teaching of the Buddha.
พระสงฆ์ 1. Saïgha; the Order; the monastic order. 2. (T.) a monk.
พราหมณ์ a Brahmin; man of the Brahmin caste; a priest.
พระเครื่อง a small Buddha image (often used as an amulet or talisman); amuletic Buddha image.
พระธรรม (Dhamma) Dhamma; Dharma; the Doctrine; the Teachings; the Law; the Norm.
พระนอน Reclining Buddha.
พระบรมศาสดา the Master; the Teacher; the Great Master; the Buddha.
พับเพียบ v. to sit flat with both legs tucked back to one side; sit sideways.
พระประธาน the principal Buddha image (in the Uposatha hall); main Buddha image.
พระปรางค์ (round-topped) towerlike stupa with a pronged crownpiece; Phra Prang.
พิธี (Vidhàna) arrangement; performance; ceremony.
พิธีกร (Vidhikara*) master of ceremonies.
พิธีกรรม rite; ritual; ceremony.
พุทธศาสนิกชน a Buddhist; adherent of Buddhism.
พุทธบาท the Buddha’s footprint.
พุทธประวัติ the life of the Buddha; life-story of the Buddha.
โพธิ์ (ต้นไม้) (Bodhirukkha) the “Bo” tree; the Bodhi Tree; pipal tree; the Ficus Religiosia.
โพธิสัตว์, พระ (Bodhisatta) the Bodhisatta; Bodhisattva; a Buddha-to-be; Enlightenmentbeing; candidate for Buddhahood; one who has resolved to attain enlightenment for the helping of his fellow beings.
ภพ becoming; existence; process of becoming; state of existence.
ภาวนา development; mental culture; meditation.
มงคล festivity; good omen; auspice; auspicious ceremony; (the thirty-eight) blessings. adj. auspicious.
มณฑป a pavilion; temporary shed