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kusītā

kusīta

masc nom pl of kusīta (adj); fem nom sg of kusīta (adj); fem nom pl of kusīta (adj); nt nom pl of kusīta (adj); …

1. kusīta (adj): lazy; slack; inactive; apathetic
2. kusītā (fem): indolence, laziness
3. kusīta (masc): lazybones; who is slack; inactive person

Built from

• ku — prefix · bad, ill
  Negating or worsening prefix; cognate with Greek dys- (dysfunction). Here it taints the notion of rest into idleness.
• sīta — stem · lying, at rest
  Past participle of √si (to lie, rest); the root denotes physical recumbency, here metaphorically extended to mental and moral slackness.

Etymology. From ku- (bad, ill) + sīta (past participle of √si, to lie, rest). The compound expresses a state of being badly at rest—lying idle in an unfavourable way. The prefix ku- (cognate with Greek dys-) combines with the notion of repose to denote slothful inactivity.

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

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