bhojanīyena

bhojanīya

nt instr sg of bhojanīya (noun)

cooked food; soft food; staple food; lit. to be eaten

Built from

bhoj — root · eat, enjoy
The root √bhuj means 'to eat' and 'to bend, turn' (motion of the mouth in eating). Cognate with Latin fugere 'to flee' via shared Indo-European *bʰewg-, though the semantic shift in Latin is distinct.
anīya — ending · gerundive (to be -ed)
The suffix -anīya forms a gerundive adjective (future passive participle), indicating what ought to be done or is fit/worthy to be done. Here it marks bhojanīya as 'that which is to be eaten' or 'fit to eat'.

Etymology. From √bhuj 'to eat, enjoy' (cognate with Latin fugere 'to flee, shun' via Indo-European *bʰewg-) plus the gerundive suffix -anīya. The derivation 'to be eaten' reflects the passive sense of the gerundive, denoting that which is intended for eating.

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

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