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ajini

aor 3rd sg of ajini (verb); aor 2nd sg of ajini (verb)

1. overpowered; robbed; defeated

Built from

• a — prefix · aorist marker
  The a- prefix marks aorist tense in Pali verb formation, not negation here; it appears regularly in past tense stems.
• jin — root · conquer, overcome
  Cognate with Latin vincere (conquer) and English win. The root carries the sense of striving against and prevailing over an opponent.
• i — ending · 3rd sg. aorist
  The -i ending marks 3rd person singular in the aorist tense, indicating past completed action.

Etymology. From √jin (to conquer, overcome) with the a- prefix (negation or perfectivizing aspect in aorist formation). The root jin is cognate with Latin vincere (to conquer) and English win, from Indo-European *h₂wen- (to strive, overcome). The prefix a- here marks the aorist tense rather than negation.

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

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