Brahma

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noun (1)

Brah·​ma ˈbrä-mə How to pronounce Brahma (audio)
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: the creator god of the Hindu sacred triad compare shiva, vishnu
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: the ultimate ground of all being in Hinduism

Brahma

2 of 2

noun (2)

Brah·​ma ˈbrā-mə How to pronounce Brahma (audio) ˈbrä- How to pronounce Brahma (audio)
ˈbra-

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Nearby, a striking 9th century Indonesian carving in volcanic stone of Brahma, the multi-headed god, represents the myriad complexities of creation — just like every other Hindu Brahma sculpture that is not on view. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024 The firm spent its first few years expanding the group’s personal beer empire (with brands such as Brahma and Interbrew) and engineering the buyout of Anheuser-Busch that formed AB InBev, the largest brewer in the world. Hank Tucker, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 The other three, depicting the gods Bhairava, Nandi and Brahma, were taken from Singasari, a late 13th-century temple complex in East Java, in the mid-19th century. Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024 While flying upward, however, Brahma encountered a ketaki flower that had fallen from a branch nearby. Robert J. Stephens, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024 Other big sellers are Japan’s Suntory All-Free, and Brahma 0.0%, owned by AB InBev. Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 2 June 2024 The Buddhist pictured God the way Hindus conceived of Brahma or Shiva, or the ancient Greeks imagined Zeus or Athena, the former missionary says. Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023 This was because Jalandhar, born from Shiva’s third eye, had previously won a boon from the god Brahma that his wife’s chastity would keep him invincible in any battle. Holly Walters, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2023 Water: Asia’s New Battleground By Brahma Chellaney Georgetown University Press, 2011, 400 pp. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975 By Chalmers Johnson Stanford University Press, 1982, 412 pp. Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Sanskrit brahman

First Known Use

Noun (1)

1690, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (2)

1822, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Brahma was in 1690

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“Brahma.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Brahma. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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