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ānandassa

ānanda

masc dat sg of ānanda (noun); masc gen sg of ānanda (noun)

1. happiness; joy
2. name of an arahant monk; attendant of the Buddha; great disciple of the Buddha; foremost monk in great learning; foremost monk in excellent recollection; foremost monk in retention; foremost monk in total recall; foremost monk in assistance; lit. happiness
3. name of four privately awakened Buddhas

Built from

• ā- — prefix · toward, up to
  Reverses the motion of the root; here the joy that wells up toward the observer.
• nand — root · rejoice, delight
  No common European cognate; the root expresses spontaneous gladness. Sanskrit nandati, same meaning.
• -a — ending · masculine nominative singular stem-former
  In the nominative singular form ānanda; the -a marks the stem class (a-stem noun).

Etymology. ā- (toward, up to) + nand- (rejoice, delight), making

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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