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rūpañca

rūpa

nt

1. matter; material thing; materiality; experience of material world; physical objects of consciousness; first of the five aggregates; lit. form
2. body; physical body; material bodily; lit. form
3. (object of the eye) form; material form; shape; sight; appearance
4. of character; having nature of; of type; of kind; having the quality of; appearing as; lit. having form of
5. as if; like someone; lit. having form of
6. (gram) form of a word
7. (gram) sound of a word; lit. form
8. (gram) stem of verb

Analysis. rū + pañca; rūpaṃ + ca

Etymology. √rūp + a; from √rūp 'form, produce'; Sanskrit rūpa [rūp]

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

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