śīla

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit शील (śīla, “conduct, morality”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /si.la/
  • Rhymes: -la
  • Homophones: sila, śila, śilā, śīla
  • Hyphenation: si‧la

Noun

śīla

  1. moral character
  2. action, conduct
  3. good conduct, good character
  4. (Buddhism) ethics, morality

Derived terms

  • makaśīla

Descendants

  • → Balinese: ᬰᬶᬮ (sila, “conduct”)

Further reading

  • "śīla" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.