saṅgho

saṅgha

masc nom sg of saṅgha (noun)

community; fellowship; monastic order
group; crowd; mass; multitude; collection; entourage
name of a privately awakened Buddha; lit. group

Built from

saṁ — prefix · together
Brings things into one: people gathering into a single community or assembly.
gha — root · go; come
From √gam, 'to go'; cognate with Greek gignesthai 'to become' and Latin venīre 'to come.' Here sense is 'to come together, gather.'

Etymology. From the root saṁ + √gam (to go together). The concrete image is of people coming together into one place—hence a gathering or assembly. Sanskrit saṅgha, Greek synagōgē (synagogue), and Latin congregāre all descend from the same Indo-European root *gʰem- (to come together). In the Buddhist tradition, saṅgha is one of the Tiratana (Three Jewels), the community of ordained practitioners (bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs) who preserve and transmit the Dhamma.

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

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