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bahulīkatāya

bahulīkata

fem instr sg of bahulīkata (pp); masc dat sg of bahulīkata (pp); fem dat sg of bahulīkata (pp); nt dat sg of bahulīkata (pp); …

1. practised often; repeated a lot; done again and again; lit. made a lot

Built from

• bahu — root · much, many
  Cognate with Sanskrit bahu, Greek poly-, English manifold. The root sense is abundance or multiplicity.
• lī — ending · made, rendered
  Suffix deriving an adjective; -lī is related to √lī (cling, adhere) and forms derivatives with the sense 'made to do' or 'rendered into a state of'.
• kata — ending · made, done (pp)
  Past participle of √kar (make, do), cognate with Latin creare and English create. Here it marks the action as completed and perfective.

Analysis. bahulī-kata: bahulī (abundant, much) + kata (made, done), a past participle meaning 'made abundant' or 'made frequent'.

Etymology. bahulī derives from bahu (much, many), cognate with Sanskrit bahu, Greek πολύ (poly-), and English manifold; -kata is the past participle of √kar (make, do), cognate with Latin creare and English create. The prefix-like sense here is additive rather than local.

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

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