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dukkhassa

dukkha

masc dat sg of dukkha (adj); nt dat sg of dukkha (adj); masc gen sg of dukkha (adj); nt gen sg of dukkha (adj); …

1. uncomfortable; unpleasant
2. painful
3. discomfort; suffering; unease; unpleasantness; something unsatisfactory; trouble; a bummer; stress
4. pain; physical discomfort

Built from

• du — prefix · bad, hard
  Prefix meaning "gone wrong" or "difficult"; cognate with Greek dys- (dystopia). The concrete sense of "bad direction" or "hard going" carries into the abstract meaning of suffering.
• kkha — root · uneasy, uncomfortable
  Root related to discomfort or unease. The geminate -kk- arises from sandhi (contraction of an earlier consonant cluster). This is the lexical core of the adjective.

Etymology. du- (bad, gone wrong) + -kkha, from the root kh- meaning to be uncomfortable or uneasy. The prefix du- appears in Greek dys- (dysfunction, dystopia), Latin du- forms. The word's core sense is "badly-situated" or "ill-faring". In Sanskrit duḥkha, the kh reflects an older kṣ.

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

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