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alabhamānassa

alabhamāna

masc dat sg of alabhamāna (prp); nt dat sg of alabhamāna (prp); masc gen sg of alabhamāna (prp); nt gen sg of alabhamāna (prp)

1. not getting; not obtaining; not finding

Built from

• a — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. Cognates: English un-, Greek a(n)- (atheist, anonymous).
• labh — root · grasp, obtain, seize
  The concrete image is grasping or seizing something. Related to √rabh and cognate with Latin labare 'totter' (from the image of unsteady grasping).
• amāna — ending · present participle
  The gerundive suffix -māna (cf. Sanskrit -māna) forms a present participle; in the dative/genitive singular, it agrees with a dependent noun or expresses the agent of an action in progress.

Analysis. a- (not) + labhamāna (finding, obtaining) — present participle of labhati 'gets, obtains' with the negating prefix a-, forming the sense of one who does not obtain or is not obtaining.

Etymology. √labh 'grasp, seize, obtain' is cognate with Latin labare 'to totter' and English lob; the prefix a- (not, without) is plain negation, as in English un- and Greek a(n)-.

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

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