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ākārehi
ākāra
masc instr pl of ākāra (noun); masc abl pl of ākāra (noun)
- way; manner; method; mode; lit. way of making
- aspect; facet; detail; property; quality; attribute
- disposition; tendency
- reason; evidence; clue
- form, condition, state, appearance
- (gram) the prefix ā-
- (gram) derivative verbal noun ending in -ana
Built from
- ā — prefix · toward, up to
Reverses or redirects motion; here abstracts the notion of producing or appearing. Cognate with Sanskrit ā.
- kār — root · make, do, create
Indo-European root *ker- seen in English "create", Latin "creare", Greek "karein". Forms the causal or agent noun stem.
- a — ending · masculine noun
Marks the masculine singular nominative stem; the oblique base for all declensions.
- hi — ending · instrumental/ablative plural
Pali instrumental-ablative plural ending for masculine ā-stem nouns, signalling the case and number in the surface form.
Etymology. ā + √kṛ (to make, do). The prefix ā- (toward, up to) combines with the root kṛ (cognate with English "create", Latin "creare", Greek "karein") to yield ākāra: literally "a making toward" or "a way of making", hence manner, form, or appearance. The concrete sense of ā as motion toward the speaker shifts here to the abstract notion of how something is made or appears.