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musāvādaṁ

musāvāda

accusative singular masculine of musāvāda, a noun in sam. agreement

1. lying, false speech
2. the precept against lying (one of the five precepts)
3. deceit, deception

Built from

• musā — root · falsehood
  Related to Sanskrit mṛṣā; concrete image of deviation from truth.
• vāda — stem · speech, saying
  From √vac (to speak); cognate with Latin vox, English voice. Denotes utterance or assertion.

Analysis. musā (falsehood, lie) + vāda (speech, saying); a compound denoting speech that is false.

Etymology. musā is related to Sanskrit mṛṣā (false, deceitful), from a root meaning to be deceptive; vāda derives from vac- (to speak), cognate with Latin vox (voice) and English voice. Together they form a standard Buddhist term for one of the grave breaches of conduct.

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

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