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sambhaggehi

sambhagga

masc instr pl of sambhagga (pp); nt instr pl of sambhagga (pp); masc abl pl of sambhagga (pp); nt abl pl of sambhagga (pp)

1. broken off; cracked off; snapped off; shattered

Built from

• sam — prefix · together; thoroughly
  Prefix of completion or intensity. Combined with breaking verbs, it emphasizes complete fracturing or shattering.
• bhañj — root · break, shatter
  Root cognate with Sanskrit bhañjati. The concrete image is the sound and action of something snapping or fracturing.
• -a — ending · past participle
  Masculine and neuter nominative singular stem-form of the past participle, inflected in instrumental and ablative plural (sambhaggehi).

Analysis. sam- + bhagga: 'broken together' or 'broken apart', i.e. fractured, shattered. The prefix sam- here conveys the sense of complete or thorough fracturing rather than unified assembly.

Etymology. bhagga is the past participle of bhañjati 'breaks, shatters' (√bhañj-), cognate with Sanskrit bhañjate and related to English 'break' through the same Indo-European root. The prefix sam- originally means 'together' but in combination with action verbs often intensifies the sense of completion or thoroughness, so sambhagga conveys not mere breaking but utter shattering.

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

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