mārena

māra

masc instr sg of māra (noun)

death; Death; death personified

Built from

mā — root · die, perish
From Indo-European *mer-. The Sanskrit cognate is √mṛ; also Latin mors 'death', English 'mortal', Greek 'brotos' 'mortal man'. In Pali, māra denotes death as a personified power.
ra — ending · agent suffix
Nominative stem-forming suffix creating an agent noun: 'one who causes death' or 'death as a force'. The -ra suffix is ancient, appearing in many Pali agent nouns.
ena — ending · instrumental case
Marks the instrumental singular, expressing the means or agent by which something is done ('by/with death').

Etymology. From √mṛ 'to die' (Sanskrit mṛ, cognate with English 'mortal', Latin 'mors', Greek 'brotos'). Māra is both the natural force of death and, in the Canon, the tempter-demon Māra, chief of the sense-realm gods, who opposes the Buddha and disrupts practice. The name embodies death as obstacle and adversary.

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

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