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rūpesu

rūpa

nt loc pl of rūpa (noun); masc loc pl of rūpa (adj); nt loc pl of rūpa (adj)

  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

Etymology. From Indo-European *reup- (to break, tear), cognate with Latin rumpere (break), English reave (rob). The concrete sense of breaking or tearing into visible pieces underlies the abstract notion of form or appearance—that which breaks into perceptible parts.

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

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