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pattacīvaramādāya

sandhi form; nominative/accusative singular masculine participle in absolute construction

1. taking one's bowl and robe

Built from

• pattaṃ — root · bowl
  From Sanskrit patra 'vessel, leaf'. A flat object for holding alms, essential to monastic life.
• cīvaraṃ — root · robe
  Obscure origin; the monastic robe, one of the four requisites (paccaya).
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  The prefix ā reverses the motion of √dā, making 'dā' mean 'take toward oneself' rather than merely 'give'. Common in verbs of approach.
• dā — root · take, give
  Sanskrit √dā, English donation, Latin dare. Here, with ā, means 'take up, seize, take toward oneself'.
• ya — ending · aorist participle
  Forms the absolutive (gerund) in -ya, used for actions preceding the main verb in narrative sequence, especially in monastic contexts.

Analysis. pattaṃ 'bowl' + cīvaraṃ 'robe' + ādāya 'having taken'; a coordination of two accusative objects with the aorist participle ādāya (√ā-√dā 'take up toward'), expressing action immediately preceding the main verb, common in monastic narrative.

Etymology. patta from Sanskrit patra 'leaf, plate, vessel' (related to English pterygium and pterodactyl, from Greek pterón 'wing', via the sense of a thin, flat thing); cīvara of obscure origin, possibly from Sanskrit civarā; ādāya from ā-√dā 'take up, take toward oneself', where ā reverses the motion of √dā and adds the sense of bringing things to oneself.

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

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