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khaye

khaya

masc acc pl of khaya (noun); masc loc sg of khaya (noun)

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

Built from

• kha — root · decay, wear away
  The root √kṣay in Sanskrit; in Pali phonetically shifted to kh. Expresses the concrete image of matter eroding or being consumed by time.
• ya — ending · nominalizing suffix
  Forms an abstract noun denoting the process or state of wearing away, exhaustion.

Etymology. From √kṣay (Sanskrit kṣayati "wears away, decays"), cognate with Greek phthisis "wasting disease" (both from IE *kʰey- "to decay"). The root's concrete sense—material erosion or consumption—extends to depletion and, in Buddhist usage, the exhaustion of kilesas and kamma.

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

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