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khayāya

khaya

masc dat sg of khaya (noun)

1. wearing away; exhaustion; erosion; depletion; destruction (of)

Etymology. √khī > khay + *a; from √khī 'exhaust, destroy'; Sanskrit kṣaya [kṣi]

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

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