lābhī

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

who gains; who gets; who has

Built from

labh — root · seize, obtain
Basic image of grasping or taking hold. Cognate with Sanskrit labh-, Greek λαμβάνω (lambánō) 'to take', and distantly Latin labor (one labors to get, to seize through effort).
ī — ending · agent noun (one who)
Feminine-origin suffix forming agent nouns and adjectives. Here it marks the one who habitually or characteristically obtains or gains, with full agreement across all genders and numbers in the nominative.

Etymology. From √labh (Sanskrit labh-, labh-), meaning 'to seize, grasp, obtain'. The suffix -ī forms an agent noun (one who does the action). Sanskrit cognate labdhá- 'obtained', Greek λαμβάνω (lambánō) 'to take', Latin laborāre (though the semantic path diverged). The root carries the basic image of grasping something in hand.

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

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