ब्रह्मन्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰŕ̥źʰma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰŕ̥ĵʰma, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to become high, rise, elevate”). Literally “growth”, “expansion”, “creation”, “development”, “swelling of the spirit or soul”. The Sanskrit root is बृह् (bṛh, “to increase, grow, expand”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root above.

An older etymology presented the word as an exact cognate of Latin flāmen (“priest”), however this is commonly considered spurious by modern authors.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

ब्रह्मन् • (bráhman) m

  1. Brahma or the one impersonal universal Spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods.

Noun

ब्रह्मन् • (bráhman) n

  1. pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer
  2. the sacred word (as opp. to वाच् (vāc), the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or mantra used as a spell
  3. the Brahmana portion of the Veda
  4. the sacred syllable om

See also

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