‹ Back to the text

āpanno

āpanna

masc nom sg of āpanna (pp)

1. fallen into; entered into; met with
2. possessed of; filled with; having; lit. entered
3. (of an offence) committed; fallen into
4. (of a monk) who has committed; who has fallen into (an offence)
5. caused; effected

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward, into
  Reverses motion verbs toward the speaker and inward states. Sanskrit ā; no common European cognate.
• pad — root · go, fall
  Cognate with Latin pedis (foot), English path. The image is literal motion or a footfall into a place or condition.
• na — ending · past participle
  Marks a completed action in the past participle, here masculine nominative singular. Agrees with a noun or stands alone as an adjective.

Etymology. ā + √pad. The prefix ā reverses the direction of motion: √pad 'to go, fall' normally looks away from the speaker, but ā turns it back toward and into a state or condition. Cognate with Sanskrit āpad- 'misfortune, calamity' and Latin pedis 'foot' (√ped in Indo-European). The sense 'fallen into' reflects the literal collision: to fall into a pit or condition.

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

Lite mode — plain HTML for e-readers and old browsers. Full version