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dvārā

dvāra

nt nom pl of dvāra (noun); nt instr sg of dvāra (noun); nt abl sg of dvāra (noun); nt voc sg of dvāra (noun); …

1. door; entrance; gate; gateway
2. door of action; i.e. body, speech or mind
3. having sense-doors; with the six sense fields
4. sense door

Built from

• dvi — prefix · two
  From the numeral 'two'; suggests the paired or hinged structure of a door. Cognate with Latin duo, Greek duo.
• āra — root · move, fit
  The root sense 'to move or fit together'; the two leaves moving. Sanskrit ara 'spoke of a wheel' from the same root—things that fit and move.

Etymology. From dvi- 'two' + √ar 'to move, fit': the two leaves or panels that move. Cognate with Sanskrit dvāra, Greek thura 'door' (same root), Latin foris. The concrete imagery: two movable parts meeting at a threshold.

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

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