accusative plural masculine of bāhira, adjective
Analysis. Not a compound or sandhi form; simple adjective inflected for plural accusative case (bāhira + accusative plural ending -ānaṁ).
Etymology. Cognate with Sanskrit bāhya and possibly related to a root meaning "to be outside"; the spatial sense of externality is primary, used doctrinally for phenomena external to consciousness (e.g., sense-objects, external sense-bases).
Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.
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