ब्रह्मन्

Proper noun

 * 1)  (“Brahma”)

Etymology
From, from , from. Literally “growth”, “expansion”, “creation”, “development”, “swelling of the spirit or soul”. Cognate with 🇨🇬. The Sanskrit root is, from the same Proto-Indo-European root above.

Alternatively, Mayrhofer prefers to derive the word from and connect it to 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬.

An older etymology presented the word as an exact cognate of 🇨🇬; however, this is commonly considered spurious by modern authors.

Proper noun

 * 1) Brahman or the one self-existent impersonal Spirit, the one universal Soul, the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal

Proper noun

 * 1) Brahmā or the one impersonal universal Spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods

Noun

 * 1) pious effusion or utterance, outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods, prayer
 * 2) the sacred word (as opp. to, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text or mantra used as a spell
 * 3) the Brahmana portion of the Veda
 * 4) the sacred syllable om

Noun

 * 1) one who prays, a devout or religious man, a brahmin who is a knower of Vedic texts or spells, one versed in sacred knowledge
 * 2) one of the 4 principal priests or Ritvijas