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byāpādo

byāpāda

masc nom sg of byāpāda (noun)

1. dislike; ill-will; hatred; hostility; enmity; malevolence (towards); lit. going wrong

Built from

• vi — prefix · apart, asunder
  The prefix marking separation and clarity; here it signals deviation from the straight course.
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Often reverses or redirects motion; here it intensifies the sense of going awry toward a target.
• pad — root · go, fall, reach
  Related to Sanskrit pad- and English 'pad'. The root carries the concrete image of movement or a path taken.
• a — ending · masculine nominative
  Nominalizing suffix that forms the masculine abstract noun byāpāda from the verbal stem.

Analysis. Compound of byā (< vi-ā) + √pad, "going away in different directions" or "deviation": ill-will as a turning-away from goodwill (mettā).

Etymology. vi-ā-pad: the prefix vi- (apart, asunder) combined with ā- (toward, reversing) and √pad (go, fall). The spatial image is of going astray or deviating from the right path—compare Sanskrit vyāpad. Related to English 'pad' (path) through shared Indo-European roots.

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

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