資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Mantra \Man"tra\, n. [Skr.]
A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.
[India]
Note: Among the Hindoos each caste and tribe has a mantra
peculiar to itself; as, the mantra of the Brahmans.
--Balfour (Cyc. of India).
資料來源 : WordNet®
mantra
n 1: a commonly repeated word or phrase; "she repeated `So
pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra"
2: (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of
a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns