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asamāhitā

asamāhita

masc nom pl of asamāhita (pp); fem nom sg of asamāhita (pp); fem nom pl of asamāhita (pp); nt nom pl of asamāhita (pp); …

1. not meditatively composed; scattered; uncollected; unsettled; distracted; unsteady; lit. not placed together here

Built from

• a- — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. Cognates: English un-, Greek a(n)-. Here negating the whole compound.
• sam- — prefix · together, completely
  Brings things into one place. Cognates: English same, Greek homo-, Latin con-.
• ā- — prefix · toward, up to; reverses motion
  Reorients verbs toward the speaker or goal. Cognates: Sanskrit ā. Here with √dhā, 'placing toward/into'.
• dhā — root · place, put, set down
  Root of Latin facio 'make' and English do. The concrete image is physical placement; here, placing mind-states.
• ta — ending · past participle
  Marks the word as a completed past state. Agrees with the subject in gender, number, and case.

Analysis. a- + samāhita; negation of samāhita (past participle of samādhiyati, 'places together, collects').

Etymology. The prefix a- (without, not) negates samāhita. Samāhita derives from sam- (together) + ā- (toward, up to) + √dhā (to place, put), literally 'placed together'; cognate with Sanskrit samādhita and English 'together' (from Germanic *ga- + *sam-). The word's concrete imagery is of mental faculties brought into unified focus—the foundation of samādhi (meditative collectedness).

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

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