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lohitapāṇi

masc nom sg of lohitapāṇi (adj); fem nom sg of lohitapāṇi (adj); nt nom sg of lohitapāṇi (adj); nt acc sg of lohitapāṇi (adj); …

1. bloody-handed; violent; blood-thirsty

Built from

• lohita — root · blood, bloody
  From √luh (to pluck, tear), shifted to redness and blood. Related to Latin luceo (shine) in Indo-European sense of bright/red.
• pāṇi — root · hand
  From PIE *peh₂- (palm, hand). Cognate with Latin palma and English palm.

Analysis. Compound: lohita (blood, bloody) + pāṇi (hand). One whose hand is bloody; fig. one who kills, a violent or bloodthirsty person.

Etymology. lohita from √luh (to pluck, tear away; cognate with Latin luceo, English lucent, via the sense of brightness → redness); pāṇi from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (hand, palm), cognate with Latin palma, English palm. The image is literal or metaphorical: hands stained with blood as a mark of violence or killing.

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

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