羅摩衍那

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (羅摩衍那)		羅	摩	衍	那
simp. (罗摩衍那)		罗	摩	衍	那

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit रामायण (rāmāyaṇa).

Watanabe Kaigyoku (1907) attested that the oldest mention of "Ramayana" in Chinese Buddhist writing is in a translation of Mahāvibhāṣā by 7th-century monk Xuanzang (aka Yuan Chwang), as 羅摩衍拏 (MC la ma yenX nrae).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Luómóyǎnnà

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄛˊ ㄧㄢˇ ㄋㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Luómóyǎnnà
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄛˊ ㄧㄢˇ ㄋㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Luómóyǎnnà
    • Wade–Giles: Lo²-mo²-yen³-na⁴
    • Yale: Lwó-mwó-yǎn-nà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Luomoyeannah
    • Palladius: Ломояньна (Lomojanʹna)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ³⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹/

Proper noun

羅摩衍那

1. (Hinduism) Ramayana