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saṅghaṁ

saṅgha

accusative singular masculine of saṅgha (noun)

1. the community of monks and nuns
2. the monastic order
3. the Sangha (one of the Three Jewels)

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, with
  Things brought into one; cognate with English 'same' and Latin 'con-'.
• gha — root · go, come
  From √gam; the concrete image is movement toward a common place.
• a — ending · nominative stem-formant
  Forms the noun stem; -ṁ marks the accusative case-ending.

Etymology. From sam- (together) + √gam (go): literally 'those who come together'. Related to Sanskrit saṅgha and English cognate 'gang' (from Old Norse ganga, 'to go'). The word denotes the collective body of practitioners united in the discipline.

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

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