an adamant (mythical rock thought to be of impenetrable hardness) · something extremely solid and indestructible · the firmness of one's own spirit and the strength of one's own spiritual power
köken: /komʉ kau/ → /koŋɡau/ → /koŋɡɔː/ → /koŋɡoː/ From Middle Chinese 金剛 (MC kim kang), itself a translation of Sanskrit वज्र (vajra, “diamond, adamant; thunderbolt”). Compare modern Cantonese 金剛 /金刚 (gam¹ gong¹).
"the hard or mighty one", a thunderbolt · also applied to a thunderbolt in general, or to the lightning evolved from the centrifugal energy of the circular thunderbolt of Indra when launched at a foe · in Northern Buddhist countries, it is shaped like a dumbbell and called Dorje (MWB. 201, 322 etc.; RV. etc.)
çekim: çoğul वज्राः॑ · tamlayan वज्र॑स्य
köken: From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wáȷ́ras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́ras, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“strong, lively”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬰𐬭𐬀 (vazra, “mace; main weapon of Mithra”), Persian گرز (“club, mace”). Compare also Old Armenian վարզ (varz, “mace”), an Iranian borrowing.