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amāyāvino

amāyāvī

masc nom pl of amāyāvī (adj); masc acc pl of amāyāvī (adj); masc dat sg of amāyāvī (adj); nt dat sg of amāyāvī (adj); …

1. not deceitful; not hypocritical; not fraudulent

Built from

• a — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. Cognate with English un-, Greek a(n)-.
• māy — root · deceit, fraud
  Sanskrit māyā; originally meant artificial contrivance or illusion. The sense of deceptive making or fraud is preserved in Pali.
• āvin — ending · one who (agent)
  The suffix -āvin (or -in) forms agent adjectives meaning "one who does" or "one characterized by". Here it attaches to māy- to mean "one who deceives", negated by the prefix a-.

Etymology. a- (not, without) + māyā (deceit, fraud) + -vin (agent suffix, forming adjectives "one who does"). The root māyā is cognate with Sanskrit māyā, originally "artificial contrivance, illusion"; the a- prefix simply negates it. One without deceit; in doctrinal usage, amāyāvī denotes the honest practitioner free from hypocrisy (sakkaraṇa), a quality prized in the sangha.

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

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