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parisuddhe

parisuddha

masc acc pl of parisuddha (pp); nt acc pl of parisuddha (pp); masc loc sg of parisuddha (pp); nt loc sg of parisuddha (pp); …

1. clean; pure; bright; perfect; lit. cleaned all around
2. become pure; cleansed; purified; brightened

Built from

• pari- — prefix · around; completely
  Indicates motion or extension in all directions; brings the sense of thoroughness and completion to the root.
• suddha — stem · clean; pure
  Past participle of √sudh 'to cleanse'; the root conveys the image of sweating out, hence exuding impurity to achieve purity.

Analysis. pari- (around, completely) + suddha (cleaned, pure, past participle of √sudh). The prefix pari- intensifies suddha to mean cleansing that is complete and thorough.

Etymology. From √sudh 'to clean, purify' (cognate with Sanskrit śuddha 'pure', from Indo-European *sweud- 'to sweat, exude': the concrete sense of sweating out impurity becomes purification). The prefix pari- (around, all the way round, from Proto-Indo-European *peri-, cognate with Greek perí and Latin per-) adds the sense of completeness: things cleaned all around, utterly purified.

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

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