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duggatā

duggata

masc nom pl of duggata (adj); fem nom sg of duggata (adj); fem nom pl of duggata (adj); nt nom pl of duggata (adj); …

1. faring badly; poor; miserable; suffering; unfortunate

Built from

• du — prefix · bad, gone wrong
  The spatial sense of badness or difficulty governs the abstract sense of misfortune. Cognate with Greek dys- (dysfunction).
• gata — stem · gone, fared
  Past participle of √gam "to go"; literally "fared", so duggata is "fared badly", marking the destination or state reached by bad conduct.

Etymology. du- (bad, wrong; from Indo-European *dus-, cognate with Greek dys- in dysfunction, dystopia) + gata (gone, past participle of √gam "to go"). Literally "gone badly"; used in Pali canon to describe beings reborn in lower realms (cf. duggati "bad destination").

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

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