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mani stone

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

Syllables
mani -s-tone
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A stone, rock or pebble usually inscribed with the mantra om mani padme hum, used as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism.

Etymology

From the mantra usually inscribed on them, from Tibetan ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ (oṃ ma ṇi pdme hūm̐), from Sanskrit ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं (oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ, ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं

Inflected Forms

mani stones (plural)

Questions

What does mani stone mean?
A stone, rock or pebble usually inscribed with the mantra om mani padme hum, used as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism.
Where does mani stone come from?
It is traced to Sanskrit.

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