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abyābajjhena
abyābajjha
nt instr sg of abyābajjha (noun); masc instr sg of abyābajjha (adj); nt instr sg of abyābajjha (adj)
- freedom from oppressive pain; pain relief; non-affliction; lit. no oppression here state
- non-afflictive; not harmful; free from pain; without suffering; lit. no oppression here state
- without ill-will; with goodwill; benevolent; lit. not gone wrong state
- unafflicted; not suffering; lit. no oppression here state
Built from
- a — prefix · not, without
Plain negation. Cognates: English un-, Greek a(n)-.
- byā — prefix · apart, asunder
Contracted form of vi- + ā-, carrying the sense of asunder and reversal.
- bajjh — root · break, shatter, oppress
From Indo-European *bhreg- 'to break'; cognates: English 'break', Latin 'frangere' (fracture). The semantic shift to oppression follows from the idea of being broken or shattered.
- a — ending · noun/adjective stem
Masculine or neuter stem formant marking the base form.
- ena — ending · instrumental singular
Marks the means, manner, or accompanying state ('by means of', 'in the manner of').
Analysis. a- (not) + byābajjha (oppressed, harassed); lit. 'not oppressed', hence freedom from affliction or harmlessness. The instrumental -ena marks the means or manner: 'in a non-oppressive way', 'without affliction'.
Etymology. a- (negation prefix) + byābajjha, where byābajjha derives from vi- (apart, asunder) + ā- (toward, up to) + √bhañj (break, shatter), giving the sense of 'broken apart, shattered', hence 'oppressed, harassed'. The root √bhañj appears in English 'break' and Latin 'frangere' (fracture), both from the same Indo-European base *bhreg-.