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kāmānaṁ

kāma

genitive plural of kāma (n.)

1. sensory desire
2. pleasures
3. gratification

Built from

• kāma — root · desire, lust
  The concrete sense is appetite or yearning; in the canon, kāma denotes sensory desire as one of the fetters binding to saṁsāra, often in compounds like kāmatanhā (craving for pleasures) and kāmacchanda (sensory desire as an obstacle to meditation).
• -ānaṁ — ending · of (genitive plural)
  The genitive plural marks possession or relation; here, "of desires" or "of the desires". This ending is standard in nominative-accusative neuter nouns like kāma.

Analysis. kāma- (desire) + -ānaṁ (genitive plural ending)

Etymology. √kam "to desire"; cognate with Sanskrit kāma and Latin cārus "dear". The root expresses craving for sense-objects in the doctrine of the three types of craving (taṇhā).

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

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