‹ Back to the text

pahāya

masc voc sg of pahāya (ptp); nt voc sg of pahāya (ptp)

1. leaving behind; giving up; abandoning; lit. actively abandoning
2. should be abandoned; should be given up; lit. to be actively abandoned

Built from

• pa — prefix · forth, forward
  Directional prefix intensifying the sense of active abandonment; what is done steps forth and away.
• hā — root · leave, abandon, drop
  Root meaning to relinquish or let fall; the concrete image is of releasing one's grip.
• ya — ending · gerundive/participle
  Suffix forming a past participle or gerundive, marking the action as completed or a state to be achieved; here vocative, addressing the abandoning or the thing abandoned.

Etymology. pa- (forward, forth) + √hā (to leave, abandon). The prefix pa- intensifies the root's sense of relinquishing or letting go; √hā is cognate with Sanskrit hā and ultimately to Latin casū ('fallen, left behind'), expressing the image of something dropping away or being set aside.

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

Lite mode — plain HTML for e-readers and old browsers. Full version