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sāriputto

sāriputta

masc nom sg of sāriputta (noun)

1. name of an arahant monk; chief disciple; great disciple of the Buddha; foremost monk in great wisdom; lit. son of Sāri

Built from

• sāri — root · Sāri (proper name)
  A woman's name; the component gives the patronymic its reference. Used in compound with putta to form a patronymic.
• putta — stem · son, child
  From PIE *putlo- 'small, young'. Cognate with English 'pony' and Sanskrit putra 'son'. The stem forms patronymics in -putta compounds; here nominative singular.

Analysis. sāri- (proper name, mother's name Sāri) + -putta (son); literally 'son of Sāri', a patronymic epithet

Etymology. putta is from Proto-Indo-European *putlo- 'small, young'; cognate with English 'pony' and Sanskrit putra. The root sāri is a proper name and lacks a common etymology.

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

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