mitra

IPA: mˈɪtrʌ

A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.
A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.
(uncommon) A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.
A surname from Sanskrit.
(rare) Misspelling of Iranian Mithra (Miθra).

Examples of "mitra" in Sentences

Shenyen, the Tibetan translation here for mitra, means literally relative-friend.
Padre e sposo felice gli rideva la vita ma voi gliela troncaste con raffiche di mitra!
The second component of the term spiritual friend, mitra in Sanskrit, is the common word for friend.
Often they wear a cylindrical cap, rather wider at the top than at the bottom, called mitra by the Greeks.
Instead, it is kalyana-mitra in Sanskrit and geway-shenyen (dge-ba'i bshes-gnyen) in Tibetan, abbreviated as Geshe (dge-bshes).
Bacchus, crowned with ivy, his head covered with the _mitra_, a sort of veil of fine texture which descends upon his left shoulder.
However, since kalyana-mitra here is a Mahayana term, the constructive state to which spiritual friends lead disciples is specifically enlightenment.
The concelebrating prelates wore very dignified matching chasubles and mitres (although the latter ones are technically incorrect, since they should wear the mitra simplex):
I have a feeling it goes downhill from here though jamie rhona mitra is really hot but these underworld movies are the kind of movies i would be constantly checking the color settings on my tv, way too blue
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