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maraṇā

maraṇa

nt nom pl of maraṇa (noun); nt instr sg of maraṇa (noun); nt abl sg of maraṇa (noun); nt voc sg of maraṇa (noun); …

1. death; dying

Built from

• mar — root · die, perish
  The root √mar means to die or pass away. It is an ancient Indo-European root *mer- (to rub away, perish) that appears in Latin mors, English mortal, and Sanskrit mṛ-.
• aṇa — ending · action, state, abstract noun
  The suffix -aṇa forms abstract nouns of action or state from verbal roots, yielding here maraṇa 'the dying' or 'death as a process'. It is a nominalizing suffix common in Pali noun derivation.

Etymology. From √mar (to die), cognate with Latin mors (death), English mortal, German sterben; the abstract noun formation -aṇa denotes the action or state. The root itself is ancient Indo-European *mer- (to rub away, perish), which also yields Sanskrit mṛ-, Greek meirō (wear away), and English murrain (disease of cattle).

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

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