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sabbadukkhā

sabbadukkha

nt nom pl of sabbadukkha (noun); nt instr sg of sabbadukkha (noun); nt abl sg of sabbadukkha (noun); nt voc sg of sabbadukkha (noun); …

1. all suffering; all pain; all stress; all discomfort

Built from

• sabba — root · all, entire
  From PIE *solwos. The sense of 'wholeness' grounds the doctrinal move: dukkha is not isolated but comprehensive, pervading all conditioned existence (saṅkhārā).
• dukkha — stem · suffering, pain, stress
  Compound of dus- (bad, hard—cognate with Greek dys-) and kha (space, opening). Literally 'hard to bear' or 'cramped'; in the canon, the universal unsatisfactoriness of impermanent phenomena (anicca).

Analysis. sabba (all) + dukkha (suffering, pain); a copulative compound meaning 'suffering in its totality' or 'all-encompassing pain', used in doctrinal formulas to denote the first noble truth and the scope of dukkha as the universal mark of conditioned phenomena.

Etymology. sabba from Proto-Indo-European *solwos (whole, entire); Sanskrit sarva. dukkha from dus- (bad, hard) + kha (space, opening)—'hard to bear', 'cramped', cognate with Sanskrit duḥkha. The compound frames suffering not as an entity but as a totality: all manifestations of pain and unsatisfactoriness that the Buddha taught as the foundation of the path.

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

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