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pahānāya

pahāna

nt dat sg of pahāna (noun)

1. giving up; letting go; removing; abandoning (of); lit. actively abandoning

Built from

• pa — prefix · forth, forward
  Intensifying prefix marking deliberate action; spatial sense of moving forward becomes volitional abandonment.
• hā — root · leave, abandon
  Root meaning to let go or leave behind; related to Sanskrit hā- and ultimately Indo-European *gʰeh₂- (to abandon).
• na — ending · nominalization
  Abstract noun suffix; marks pahāna as the noun form of the action denoted by the root, here 'the act of abandoning'.
• ya — ending · dative singular
  Dative case ending signaling direction or purpose; marks the noun as referring to the goal or object of abandonment.

Analysis. pa + √hā (pa-prefix 'forth' + root hā 'to leave, abandon'); nominalization expressing the action of abandoning or relinquishing.

Etymology. From pa- (forward, forth, intensifying) + √hā (to leave, abandon, cognate with Sanskrit hā- and Greek χαίρειν via Indo-European *gʰeh₂- 'to leave, let go'). The prefix pa- gives the sense of actively putting forth or away; compounds with √hā to form an abstract noun denoting the act of deliberate relinquishment central to Buddhist renunciation.

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

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