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pūjentā

pūjenta

masc nom pl of pūjenta (prp); nt nom pl of pūjenta (prp); masc voc pl of pūjenta (prp); nt voc pl of pūjenta (prp)

1. revering; honouring
2. making a devotional offering (to somebody with)

Built from

• pūj — root · honour, revere
  The root appears in Sanskrit pūjá- (offering, worship) and is likely an old Dravidian or substrate borrowing into Indo-Aryan. No secure Indo-European cognate.
• e — stem · causative/present stem marker
  The infix -e- forms the present stem from the root, creating the base for participle formation.
• nta — ending · nominative/vocative plural, present participle
  The suffix -nta marks the present active participle; in this form it agrees with masculine or neuter nominative or vocative plural subjects doing the action of honouring.

Etymology. From √pūj (to honour, revere), a root of unclear origin with no certain Indo-European cognates; the sense develops from physical acts of respect (bowing, offerings) to ritual veneration in the Buddhist context.

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

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