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appābādho

appābādha

masc nom sg of appābādha (adj)

1. well; healthy; seldom sick; lit. little oppression

Built from

• appa — stem · little, few
  From apa + pa or cognate with Sanskrit alpa; conveys smallness or fewness.
• ābādha — stem · oppression, disease
  From ā- (toward, pressing) + √badh (to press, oppress); the oppression or burden that pressing brings—disease as an oppressive condition.

Analysis. appa (little, few) + ābādha (oppression, disease); literally 'little oppression', hence 'healthy' or 'in good health'.

Etymology. appa from apa- (away, off; Latin ab-, English of/off) + pa- (forth), or directly from Sanskrit alpa 'small, few'; ābādha from ā- (toward, up to) + √badh (to press, oppress; cognate with English 'bad' in its sense of 'harmful', and Latin 'frangere'), so 'pressing down, oppression'—hence disease as that which oppresses the body.

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

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