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Definition: SUTRA |
SUTRANoun1. A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature. 2. A collection of such aphorisms. 3. A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule. |
Note: Sutra \Su"tra\, noun; plural Sutras. [Skr. s?tra a thread, a string of rules; an aphorism; from siv to sew.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SUTRA |
| English words defined with "SUTRA": Sutras. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SUTRA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (sutra), Serbo-Croatian (manana, morn, tomorrow). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sutra is a word translatable into English as "book" (the name of the famous Kama Sutra translates as "The Book of Pleasure") and is generally used for Buddhist scriptures or scriptures of other Indian religions.
The word sutra derives from the Sanskrit word for 'string'. The Prakrit/Pali form of the word is sutta.
In Buddhism originally it was used for the written oral teaching of Sakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. These teachings are mainly assembled in the second part of the Tripitaka which is called Sutta Pitaka. Nowadays very often 'sutra' is taken in Buddhism in Japan, Tibet and China for all kinds of Buddhist scriptures.
In Hinduism the 'sutra' are concise descriptions of the Brahmanas, the holy scriptures.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sutra."
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Movie/TV Titles | Camera sutra (of de bleekgezichten) (1973) Kama Sutra Rides Again (1972) Danas za sutra (1972) Danas... sutra Juce (1971) Kama Sutra '71 (1970) | |
Song Titles | Kama Sutra (performing artist: The Bonzo Dog Band) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Chinese version of the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra printed on a scroll 68 feet long and 6 1/2 inches wide, printed from blocks in Hangchow, China, about A.D. 1050. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dennis Miller | Look, the truth is that in cost-conscious, bottom-line America, all the major news organizations have been removing key positions like they were editing an Iranian edition of the Kama Sutra. |
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| "SUTRA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "SUTRA" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 88.24% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Unclassified Items | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
kama sutra | 16,084 | kama sutra product | 70 |
kama sutra position | 905 | kama sutra online | 65 |
kama sutra picture | 489 | kama sutra illustrated | 63 |
posturas del kama sutra | 294 | karma sutra photo | 62 |
kuma sutra | 226 | kama sutra sex | 60 |
sutra | 226 | posiciones del kama sutra | 56 |
kama sutra pic | 187 | cama sutra | 56 |
kama sutra position picture | 180 | indian kama sutra | 56 |
kama sutra sexual position | 176 | kama sutra animated | 50 |
karma sutra position | 171 | palma sutra | 50 |
del fotos kama sutra | 139 | kama sutra a tale of love | 50 |
kama sutra book | 132 | free kama sutra position | 48 |
kama sutra position photo | 112 | posiciones kama sutra | 46 |
kama sutra photo | 108 | club kama sutra | 45 |
free kama sutra | 98 | kama sutra video | 43 |
karma sutra picture | 98 | el kama sutra | 42 |
kama sutra sex position | 88 | kama sutra massage oil | 41 |
kama sutra kama sutra | 83 | kama sutra gallery | 41 |
kama sutra movie | 83 | heart sutra | 40 |
gay kama sutra | 75 | kama sutra.com | 38 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SUTRA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Sutër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | SUTRA. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Szutra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | SUTRA. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 経 (Buddhist scriptures, warp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utrasay sutra. (various references) Сутры. (various references) kratko pravilo. (various references) SUTRA. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SUTRA": sutras. (additional references) | |
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"SUTRA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dutra, Nutra, sastri, satar, satara, satrai, satro, satura, Saurat, sentra, setcrea, sitra, sorta, stra, stuca, sture, sudar, Suframa, sultra, surra, surt, suta, sutat, sutro, sutta, sutural, Zura. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SUTRA" (pronounced 'Su"tra'): Calyptra, Chittra, Conistra, Contra, Foutra, Mactra, mantra, Mostra, Palestra, Solenogastra, Tantra. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: arts, rats, rust, ruts, star, sura, tars, taus, tsar, ursa, utas. | |
-2 letters: ars, art, ras, rat, rut, sat, sau, tar, tas, tau, uta, uts. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, at, ta, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: aurist, frusta, jurats, krauts, kurtas, lustra, quarts, santur, struma, surtax, sutras, tarsus, tragus, tussar, ultras, urates. | |
+2 letters: accurst, antrums, arbutes, arbutus, atriums, aurists, austere, austral, auteurs, authors, barbuts, bursate, bustard, crustal, curates, curtals, custard, daturas, durmast, dustrag, estrual, estuary, fractus, guitars, jurants, kashrut, lustral, matures, muskrat, mustard, natures, nutrias, outsoar, outwars, pasture, quartes, quartos, quatres, ragouts, rituals, robusta, rubatos, saluter, santour, santurs, saunter, sautoir, startup, stature, stratum, stratus, strumae, strumas, subpart, surcoat, sutural, tabours, tamburs, tarbush, torulas, traumas, truants, tundras, turacos, turbans, turista, tussars, unsmart, unstrap, updarts, uprates, upstair, upstare, upstart, uptears. | |
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