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pūro

pūra

masc nom sg of pūra (adj)

1. full (of); filled (with); stuffed (with)

Built from

• pūra — root · fill
  The root √pṛ (pūra-) means 'to fill' and reflects the Indo-European *pelh₂-. Its sense of physical fullness extends to saturation and completeness in Pali texts.

Etymology. From √pṛ 'to fill'; cognate with Sanskrit pūra-, Latin plēnus 'full', Greek plḗrēs 'full', English full, German voll. The Indo-European root *pelh₂- 'to fill' appears across these languages, all descending from the same ancestral form.

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

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