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assādo

assāda

masc nom sg of assāda (noun)

1. enjoyment; satisfaction; pleasure; gratification (in); (comm) sweetness; lit. taste

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward
  Prefix marking motion toward the speaker or action completed. Gives the sense of turning inward to taste or savor.
• svād — root · taste, relish
  Root meaning to taste or savor. Cognate with Latin suāvis (sweet, pleasant) and English sweet, from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.
• a — ending · masculine nominative
  Standard masculine nominative singular ending in -a, marking the subject or nominative case.

Etymology. From Sanskrit āsvāda, ā + √svad (taste, relish). √svad relates to Latin suāvis (sweet) and English sweet. The prefix ā- gives the sense of 'tasting toward oneself', then generalized to any taste or relish, hence enjoyment and satisfaction. In the Canon, assāda commonly denotes sensory pleasure and the sweetness perceived in the world's pleasures—a key object of insight in Vipassanā practice.

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

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