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duruttānaṁ

durutthāna

genitive plural of durutthāna (masculine)

1. bad arising
2. misfortune
3. calamity

Built from

• du — prefix · bad, wrong
  Marks excess or harm; cognate with Greek dys- (dysfunction). Here it colours rutthāna as adverse or obstructed.
• rutthāna — stem · arising, emergence
  Derived from √rudh 'to block, obstruct'; durutthāna = bad or obstructed arising, hence misfortune or calamity. The gerundive noun-form conveys the act or result of blocking/arising as a destructive event.

Analysis. du- (bad, gone wrong) + rutthāna (arising, emergence); from du- prefix and √rudh 'to obstruct, block'—literally 'bad/obstructed arising', misfortune or adverse circumstance.

Etymology. du- (Greek dys-) + rutthāna from √rudh cognate with Sanskrit ruddhi 'obstruction'; the prefix du- signals harm or difficulty, turning the root's sense of blocking into calamity or misfortune.

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

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