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pajahatha

pajahati

pr 2nd pl of pajahati (verb); imp 2nd pl of pajahati (verb)

1. gives up; abandons; lets go (of); releases; lit. actively abandons

Built from

• pa — prefix · forth, forward
  Intensifying prefix meaning forward or forth; here it emphasizes the deliberate, active quality of abandoning. Cognate with Greek pro- and Latin pro-.
• jahati — stem · abandons, releases
  3rd singular present stem of jahati from √hā (to leave, release, relinquish). The root sense is the act of letting something go or relinquishing control.

Etymology. pa- (forward, forth, intensifying) + jahati (abandons, from √hā to leave, relinquish). The prefix pa- gives the sense of active, deliberate relinquishment. √hā is cognate with Latin cessāre (to cease) through the Indo-European root *sed- (to let go, sit), though the correspondence is distant.

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

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