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piyarūpā

piyarūpa

masc nom pl of piyarūpa (adj); fem nom sg of piyarūpa (adj); fem nom pl of piyarūpa (adj); nt nom pl of piyarūpa (adj); …

1. agreeable; endearing; cherished; lit. dear form

Built from

• piya — root · dear, beloved
  From √priy- 'to please, be dear to'. The Indo-European root *priy- underlies Sanskrit priya, and distantly English 'free' in its earlier sense of 'one to whom you are bound, beloved'.
• rūpa — root · form, appearance, shape
  From √rūp- 'to form, shape'. Cognate with Sanskrit rūpa and Latin rupes 'broken or jagged form'. The visual concreteness of 'form' carries into the adjective's meaning: things pleasant in their appearing.

Analysis. piya (dear, beloved) + rūpa (form, appearance): 'having a dear form', things or qualities that are pleasant to perceive.

Etymology. piya from √priy- (to please, be dear), cognate with Sanskrit priya and English 'free' in its root sense of 'beloved'; rūpa from √rūp- (to form, shape), related to Sanskrit rūpa and Latin rupes (broken form, rough outline). Together they compound the concrete image of beloved appearance into the abstract idea of what is pleasant or agreeable.

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

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