Pāli Dictionary

vīra1

vīrrootasuffix

Part of speech

adjective · masculine

Root

vīr8英勇；敵對

Synonyms

analasa, uṭṭhāhaka

general

  • 英勇的；勇敢的；（註疏）精進的

  • heroic; brave; (comm.) vigorous, energetic

  • SN 1.30

    eṇijaṅghaṃ kisaṃ vīraṃ, app'āhāraṃ alolupaṃ, sīhaṃ'v'ekacaraṃ nāgaṃ, kāmesu anapekkhinaṃ, upasaṅkamma pucchāma, kathaṃ dukkhā pamuccatī'ti

  • MN 56

    asaṃsayassa kusalassa, venayikassa sārathivarassa, anuttarassa ruciradhammassa, nikkaṅkhassa pabhāsakassa, mānacchidassa vīrassa, bhagavato tassa sāvako'ham'asmi.

  • （名詞用法）英雄；大丈夫；常作為佛陀的尊稱

  • (substantively, m.) a hero; a great man; often an epithet of the Buddha

  • Dhp 418

    hitvā ratiñ'ca aratiñ'ca, sītibhūtaṃ nirūpadhiṃ, sabbalok'ābhibhuṃ vīraṃ, tam'ahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.

  • Snp 5.13

    nānājanā janapadehi saṅgatā, tava vīra vākyaṃ abhikaṅkhamānā, tesaṃ tuvaṃ sādhu viyākarohi, tathā hi te vidito esa dhammo.

vīra2

Part of speech

noun · masculine

monastic

  • 毗羅長老（阿羅漢，出家前為戰士，其子出生後出家）

  • Vīra Thera — an arahant elder, formerly a warrior, who went forth after the birth of his son

  • Thag 1.8

    yo duddamiyo damena danto, vīro santusito vitiṇṇakaṅkho, vijitāvī apetalomahaṃso, vīro so parinibbuto ṭhit'atto'ti.

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Vīra
Person

  • 舍衛城一位大臣之子，曾為驍勇戰士；子女出生後出家，不為前妻挽留所動，終證阿羅漢果。

  • A minister’s son of Sāvatthi who became a great warrior, then renounced the world after his son’s birth and, resisting his former wife’s pleas, attained Arahantship.

Thag 1.8
Vīra2
Person

  • 一位富商，其女在 Tissa 佛成道前夕曾向他供奉乳粥。

  • A millionaire whose daughter offered milk-rice to the Buddha Tissa immediately before his Enlightenment.

Vīra3
Place

  • 富商 Vīra 所居住的村莊。

  • The village where the millionaire Vīra lived.

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