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bhāgino

bhāgī

masc nom pl of bhāgī (noun); masc acc pl of bhāgī (noun); masc dat sg of bhāgī (noun); masc gen sg of bhāgī (noun); …

1. shareholder; who shares; who partakes (in)
2. sharing in, partaking of

Built from

• bhāga — root · share, portion
  From √bhaj 'to distribute, divide'. The concrete sense is the dividing and allotting of resources among people.
• -in — ending · one who, agent
  Nominalizing suffix forming agent nouns (masc -ī in nom sg, -ino in nom pl). Marks the participant or one involved in the action named by the root.

Etymology. From bhāga 'share, portion' (cognate with Sanskrit bhāga-, related to √bhaj 'to divide, distribute', itself connected to Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵ- 'to share out, allot'). The agent suffix -in (-ī in nom sg masc) marks 'one who shares' from the root sense of apportionment.

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

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