Where does “普茶” come from?
普茶 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 普, from Japanese 賢, from Japanese 菩薩, from Middle Chinese 菩薩, from Middle Chinese 菩提薩埵, from Sanskrit बोधिसत्त्व, from Sanskrit बोधि, from Proto-Indo-Aryan bawdʰíṣ — to be awake, be aware.
普茶 (Japanese): in the Ōbaku sect, one of the three big sects of...
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Ancestry of “普茶”, step by step
普茶 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 普
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 普 | universal, wide |
| 2 | Japanese | 賢 | — |
| 3 | Japanese | 菩薩 | a bodhisattva |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 菩薩 | — |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 菩提薩埵 | — |
| 6 | Sanskrit | बोधिसत्त्व | bodhisattva; "one whose essence is perfect... |
| 7 | Sanskrit | बोधि | (also feminine gender) bodhi: perfect knowledge or wisdom (by which a man becomes a buddha or jina), the illuminated or enlightened intellect (of a Buddha or jina) |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | bawdʰíṣ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | bawdʰíš | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰewdʰ- | to be awake, be aware |