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araññe

arañña

nt acc pl of arañña (noun); nt loc sg of arañña (noun); masc loc sg of arāja (noun)

1. arañña (nt): forest; wood; wild; wilderness; lit. remoteness
2. arāja (masc): not a king; not a ruler

Built from

• a — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. No disturbance or agitation.
• rañña — root · agitation, coloring
  From √rajj- (to be troubled, to color). The wilderness is free from social disturbance and cultivation.

Analysis. arañña: a- (prefix, not) + rañña, from √rajj- (to be agitated, troubled). Literally 'non-agitation', hence a place free from disturbance — the wilderness as untamed and unpopulated.

Etymology. The prefix a- (without, not) negates rañña, the passive verbal noun from √rajj- (Middle Indic form of √rañj-, to trouble or color). The sense is 'unagitated place', hence forest or wilderness. The derivative arāja (not a king) shares the prefix but a different root (rāja-, king).

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

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