sutra - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Borrowed from Sanskrit सूत्र (sū́tra, “thread, yarn, string; rule”). Doublet of sutta; more distantly related to sew and suture.
sutra (plural sutras)
- A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy.
- (Buddhism, Hinduism) A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha.
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
Shepard: This Code of the Justicar seems central to your life.
Samara: It is five thousand sutras, and covers every situation one can encounter. I have memorized every word. There is only the Code.
a rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy
- Bengali: সূত্র (bn) (śutro)
- Burmese: သုတ္တန် (my) (suttan), သုတ် (my) (sut)
- French: sutra (fr) m, soutra (fr) m
- German: Sutra (de) n
- Hindi: सूत्र (hi) m (sūtra), सूत (hi) m (sūt)
- Hungarian: szútra (hu)
- Irish: sútra m
- Japanese: 経典 (ja) (きょうてん, kyōten), スートラ (sūtora)
- Korean: 수트라 (suteura)
- Lao: ສູດ (sūt)
- Malay: sutera (ms)
- Malayalam: സൂത്രം (ml) (sūtraṁ)
- Marathi: सूत्र (sūtra)
- Norwegian: sutra m
- Polish: sutra (pl) f
- Portuguese: sutra (pt) m
- Russian: су́тра (ru) f (sútra), су́тта (sútta) (rare, from Pali)
- Sanskrit: सूत्र (sa) n (sūtra)
- Swedish: sutra c
- Thai: สูตร (th) (sùut)
- Vietnamese: kinh (vi)
a scriptural narrative
- German: Sutra (de) n
- Hindi: सूत्र (hi) m (sūtra), सूत (hi) m (sūt)
- Hungarian: szútra (hu)
- Irish: sútra m
- Japanese: 経典 (ja) (きょうてん, kyōten)
- Malay: sutera (ms)
- Malayalam: സൂത്രം (ml) (sūtraṁ)
- Marathi: सूत्र (sūtra)
- Mongolian: судар (mn) (sudar)
- Norwegian: sutra m
- Polish: sutra (pl) f
- Portuguese: sutra (pt) m
- Tuvan: судур (sudur)
- Vietnamese: kinh (vi), kinh điển (vi), khế kinh, tu-đa-la
From Malay sutera, sutra, from Classical Malay سوترا (sutera), سوترا (sutra), from Sanskrit सूत्र (sūtra, “thread, fibre”).
sutra (plural sutra-sutra)
- “sutra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
sutra (Jawi spelling سُوْتْرَ)
From Sanskrit सूत्र (sūtra, “thread, rule”).
sutra m (definite singular sutraen, indefinite plural sutraer, definite plural sutraene)
- see sutre
sutra
- inflection of sutre:
- simple past
- past participle
Borrowed from Sanskrit सूत्र (sū́tra, “thread, yarn, string; rule”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *súHtram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *súHtram, from Proto-Indo-European *súh₁trom, from *syuh₁- (“to sew”).
sutra f
- (literature) sutra (rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy)
- (Buddhism, Hinduism) sutra (scriptural narrative)
- sutra in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Hyphenation: su‧tra
sutra m or f (plural sutras)
- (linguistics) sutra (a rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar)
- (Buddhism, Hinduism) sutra (a scriptural narrative)
sȕtra (Cyrillic spelling су̏тра)
sȕtra f (Cyrillic spelling су̏тра)
- (days relative to today) zanakjučer, nakjučer/nakjuče, prekjučer/prekjuče, jučer/juče, danas, sutra, preksutra/prekosutra, naksutra/nakosutra, zanaksutra (Category: sh:Time)
- “sutra”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
From Sanskrit सूत्र (sū́tra, “thread, yarn, string; rule”).
sȕtra f (Cyrillic spelling су̏тра)
- “sutra”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025