noun

• 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).