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bhogā

bhoga

masc nom pl of bhoga (noun); masc instr sg of bhoga (noun); masc abl sg of bhoga (noun); masc voc sg of bhoga (noun); …

1. wealth; possessions; property; riches
2. use; enjoyment; pleasure
3. wealth; possessions; property; riches
4. use; application; function
5. (of a snake) coil; lit. bend
6. (of an elephant) trunk; lit. bend

Built from

• bho — root · bend, curve
  From √bhuj. The spatial sense of bending or curving underlies both physical coils and the abstract notion of enjoying or using something — what is bent or turned to serve a purpose.
• ga — ending · neuter agent
  A nominalizing suffix (related to gam- 'to go') that creates an agent noun; here it derives the noun bhoga 'that which bends or is enjoyed' from the root.

Etymology. From √bhuj 'to bend, curve, enjoy'; cognate with Sanskrit bhoga (wealth, enjoyment), and distantly with English bow (to bend) and Latin fugere (to flee — both from the same Indo-European root *bheug- meaning to bend or turn). The concrete sense of 'bend' (as in a snake's coil or elephant's trunk) preserves the root's original imagery; 'wealth' and 'enjoyment' developed from the notion of what can be used or bent to one's purpose.

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

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