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mitra¹

Where it comes from

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

noun mitras

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

Mitra²

Where it comes from

Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitra). Doublet of Mithra and Mithras.

proper noun

  1. A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra. [In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position
  2. uncommon A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC. 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.
  3. alternative, rare Alternative form of Mithra (“Iranian deity”). As the Avestan Mitra had a luminous character, so had the Vedic Mitra.

Mitra³

Where it comes from

Transliteration of Bengali মিত্র (mitro).

proper noun

  1. A surname from Sanskrit.

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@misc{mitra_2026,
  title = {mitra},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mitra},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}