====== manussa ====== ===== manussa ===== //substantif// (masculin) : être **humain**, homme * déclinaison : [[declinaison_noms|thème en -a]] * étymologie : skt. //manu/////manus// =====Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede===== **manussa** [fr.manus,cp.Vedic manuṣya.Connected etym.with Goth.manna=man] a human being,man.The popular etym.connects m.with Manu(s),the ancestor of men,e.g.KhA 123:“Manuno apaccā ti manussā,porāṇā pana bhaṇanti “mana-ussannatāya manussa” ; te Jambudīpakā,Aparagoyānikā,Uttarakurukā,Pubbavidehakā ti catubbidhā.” Similarly with the other view of connecting it with “mind” VvA.18:“manassa ussannatāya manussā” etc.Cp.also VvA.23,where manussa-nerayika,°peta,°tiracchāna are distinguished.-- Sn.75,307,333 sq.,611 sq.; Dh.85,188,197 sq.,321; Nd1 97 (as gati),340,484 (°phassa of Sn.964); Vism.312; VbhA.455 (var.clans); DhA.I,364.--amanussa not human,a deva,a ghost,a spirit; in cpds.“haunted,” ilke °kantāra J.I,395,°ṭṭhāna Vv 843 (cp.VvA.334 where expld); °sadda DhA.I,315.See also separately amanussa.\\ --attabhāva human existence PvA.71,87,122.--itthi a human woman PvA.48,154.--inda lord of men S.I,69; Mhvs 19,33.--khādaka man eater,cannibal (usually appld to Yakkhas) VbhA.451.--deva (a) “god of men,” i.e.king Pv.II,811; (b) men & gods (?) VvA.321 (Hardy,in note takes it as “gods of men,” i.e.brāhmaṇā).--dhamma condition of man,human state VvA.24.See also uttari-manussa dhamma.--bhūta as a human,in human form Pv.I,112; II,112.--loka the world of men Sn.683 =====Dictionnaire Héritage du Sanscrit, Inria, Gérard Huet (dir.)===== **manu** [man-u] | var. **manus** id. m. homme [«créature pensante»] | myth. np. de Manu-Svāyaṃbhuva «l'Homme Primordial», premier homme de l'ère, issu des deux moitiés Virāṭ et Śatarūpā de Brahmā; on lui attribue les Lois de Manu [mānavadharmaśāstra] | math. symb. le nombre 14 || ang. //man// ; all. //Mann//.