菩薩
simp菩萨pou4 saat3Pú sàpú sà
English
- (Buddhism) bodhisattva
- one who is kind-hearted
- bodhisattva: person who has achieved great moral and spiritual wisdom and is a potential Buddha
- deity in folk religion in general
粵語 — Cantonese
- 佛教術語，全稱「菩提薩埵」，即係成佛前覺悟咗都立志幫眾生覺悟，從而一齊從痛苦解脱嘅生物（量詞：位／個）
- 泛指民間宗教嘅神明（量詞：位／個）
Examples
菩薩心腸
kind heart; literally: heart of a bodhisattva ----
觀世音菩薩
Goddess of Mercy; Bodhisattva Guanyin
請菩薩睇戲
to offer deities a play
有位女善信叫佢唔好影菩薩。
A female believer told him not to take photos of the (figure of the) deity.
Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk