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santhāgāre

santhāgāra

nt acc pl of santhāgāra (noun); nt loc sg of santhāgāra (noun)

1. meeting hall; council hall; (comm) sacrificial temple

Built from

• sam — prefix · together
  Brings things into one place or state. Here it marks the hall as a gathering place where people assemble.
• thāgāra — stem · storehouse, hall
  From √sthā 'stand' + -āgāra 'house': a place where things stand or are kept. In this compound, it shifts to mean a public hall or assembly place.

Analysis. sam + thāgāra, a compound: thāgāra 'storehouse' with sam- 'together', thus 'place where [people] gather together'; or analysed as san(d) + thāna + agāra, 'together-standing-house', a meeting place.

Etymology. sam- (together, with, bringing into one) + thāgāra (storehouse, from √sthā 'stand' + -āgāra 'house'). The prefix sam- embodies the concrete sense of gathering or bringing together into one place, which extends to the abstract notion of assembly. Cognate with Latin similis and English same (both from the same Indo-European root for 'one, together').

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

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