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samārake

samāraka

masc acc pl of samāraka (adj); nt acc pl of samāraka (adj); masc loc sg of samāraka (adj); nt loc sg of samāraka (adj); …

1. with Māra; with Māras

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, with
  Concrete sense of bringing things into one, here expressing companionship or association. Works like Latin con- and English same.
• āraka — stem · associate, companion
  Derived from Māra (the tempter-demon), with -ka as a nominalizing suffix. The -āraka suffix forms agent nouns meaning 'one who does' or 'companion to'; here it creates a relational adjective meaning 'associated with or accompanying Māra'.

Analysis. sam- (together, alongside) + āraka, from Māra (the tempter-demon in Buddhist cosmology). The form shows the prefix sam- (meaning 'with' or 'together') combined with āraka, a suffix or stem-formant deriving a noun meaning 'associate of' or 'companion to', here applied to Māra to mean 'one associated with Māra' or used in the sense 'in the company of Māra'.

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

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