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bhāsamānassa

bhāsamāna

masc dat sg of bhāsamāna (prp); nt dat sg of bhāsamāna (prp); masc gen sg of bhāsamāna (prp); nt gen sg of bhāsamāna (prp)

1. speaking; talking (about); saying

Built from

• bhāsa — stem · speaking
  From √bhāṣ (speak, say), with -a suffix forming the verbal root bhāsati. The concrete sense is utterance coming forth.
• mān — stem · being, doing
  From √man (think, intend), typically found in present participles as -māna; here marking the agent in the ongoing action of speaking.
• ssa — ending · dative/genitive singular
  Neuter and masculine singular ending in -ssa (also spelled -sya in Sanskrit), marking either dative (to/for whom) or genitive (of whom/what) depending on syntactic context.

Etymology. From bhāsati (speaks, says), √bhāṣ (to speak, to say). Cognate with Sanskrit bhāṣ-; related to Latin fārī (to speak, say) and English fable, fame — all from Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (to speak, shine forth). The root's concrete sense is utterance; the participle form here marks the agent in the act of speaking.

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

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