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arāgo

arāga

masc nom sg of arāga (adj)

1. without desire; with no passion; without lust (for); lit. no attachment

Built from

• a- — prefix · without, not
  Plain negation. The prefix strips away; compare English un-, Greek a(n)-. It negates what follows.
• rāga — root · passion, desire, color
  From √raj (to color, stain, dye). Passion is the mind stained or colored by emotion. Cognate with Latin rufus (red) and English red, all from the same Indo-European root for color and staining.

Etymology. a- (without) + rāga (passion, desire, color); rāga from √raj (to color, dye, be stained), akin to Latin rufus (red) and English red. The root's concrete image of staining or coloring becomes the abstract sense of being colored by emotion—passion as a stain on the mind.

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

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