Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mitra

/mˈɪtɹə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables: mi-tra
IPA: /mˈɪtɹə/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.

name

A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.

name

A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.

name

Alternative form of Mithra (“Iranian deity”).

name

A surname from Sanskrit.

Example Sentences

"[In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position"
"when about 1350 B.C. a treaty was concluded between the king of Mittanni [...] and the Hittite ruler [...], the former calls upon the gods Mitra, Indra, Varuna, and the Nâsatya as guarantors of his sworn obligations."
"As the Avestan Mitra had a luminous character, so had the Vedic Mitra."
"We cannot account for Roman Mithras in terms borrowed from Persian Mitra."

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitrá, “friend”).

Inflected Forms

mitras (plural)

Rhymes With

chitra

Questions

How do you pronounce mitra?: The recorded pronunciation is /mˈɪtɹə/.
What does mitra mean?: A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.
Where does mitra come from?: Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitrá, “friend”).

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