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sapadānacārī

masc nom sg of sapadānacārī (adj); masc nom pl of sapadānacārī (adj); fem nom sg of sapadānacārī (adj); nt nom pl of sapadānacārī (adj); …

1. who walks from house to house to collect alms-food

Built from

• sa — prefix · together, repeatedly
  Prefix used as intensifier; brings the repetitive sense of 'each and every'. Cognate with English 'same'.
• padāna — stem · by means of houses
  Instrumental form of pada 'house, dwelling' (Sanskrit pada-; cognate with English 'pad'); the -āna suffix forms the instrumental plural.
• cārī — stem · walker, one who walks
  Agent noun (abstract -ī) from the root car/cṛ 'go, walk' (Sanskrit carati; cognate with Latin currere, English 'current'). Describes the mendicant bhikkhu's practice.

Analysis. sapadāna- (house-to-house) + cārī (walker). sapadāna is sa + padāna, where padāna is from pada (house, dwelling) with instrumental suffix -āna, giving 'by means of each house/house after house'; sa- intensifies the repetitive sense. cārī is the agent noun from carati 'walks'.

Etymology. From pada 'house, dwelling' (Sanskrit pada-, also 'foot, place'; cognate with English 'pad') and carati 'walks, moves' (Sanskrit carati; cognate with Latin currere 'run', English 'current'). The compound depicts the bhikkhu's daily round: moving from house to house.

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

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