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sāyanhasamayaṁ

sāyanhasamaya

accusative singular masculine of sāyanhasamaya (compound noun)

1. evening time
2. at evening
3. in the evening

Built from

• sāya — stem · evening
  Related to Sanskrit sāyam. The sense 'evening' is primary in Pali.
• nha — root · day
  Related to Sanskrit anha 'day' (as in rātri-anha 'night and day'). The form anha appears in Vedic Sanskrit and Indo-Iranian.
• samaya — stem · time, season
  From Sanskrit samaya. Related to sam + aya (√i 'go'), lit. 'coming together', hence 'appointed time'.
• ṁ — ending · accusative
  Accusative singular ending on the compound. Marks the object of a verb or temporal adverbial phrase.

Analysis. sāyanha (evening) + samaya (time, season) = 'evening time'; sāyanha itself derives from sāya (evening) + anha (day), lit. 'the day's end'.

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

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