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aparibhinno

aparibhinna

masc nom sg of aparibhinna (pp)

1. not broken; intact; in working order; lit. not completely broken

Built from

• a — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. Cognates: English un-, Greek a(n)- (atheist).
• pari — prefix · around, completely
  Completeness and circumference; cognate with Greek peri- (perimeter). Here it intensifies: 'break all round', i.e. break through completely.
• bhid — root · break, split
  Cognate with English bite (both from Indo-European *bheid- 'to split, cleave'). The concrete sense of breaking opens to abstract failure and loss of integrity.
• na — ending · past participle
  The -na suffix (or -inna after guna) forms past participles. Here parībhinna means 'thoroughly broken', negated by a- to mean 'not broken'.

Analysis. a- + parībhinna, where parībhinna is the past participle of parībhindati (to break completely); the prefix a- negates, yielding 'not completely broken', i.e. 'unbroken, intact'.

Etymology. a- (negation; English un-, Greek a-) + √bhid (to break, split; cognate with English bite, which shares the Indo-European root *bheid- 'to split'). The prefix pari- (around, completely) intensifies the root's action: pari-bhid yields 'break all the way through', negated to 'not broken through'.

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

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