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lokā

loka

masc nom pl of loka (noun); masc instr sg of loka (noun); masc abl sg of loka (noun); masc voc sg of loka (noun); …

1. world; universe; cosmos
2. world; plane of existence
3. people (of the world); population
4. world of experience; (comm) world of aggregates, sense spheres and elements

Etymology. From Indo-European *lok- 'to bend, curve, loop'; cognate with Latin locus 'place' (from the sense of a bounded or enclosed space) and Old English lac 'opening, gap'. The underlying image is spatial: a world as a bounded region or enclosure.

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

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