soratāya

sorata

fem instr sg of sorata (adj); masc dat sg of sorata (adj); fem dat sg of sorata (adj); nt dat sg of sorata (adj); …

gentle; polite; easy-going; calm; kind
name of a privately awakened Buddha; lit. polite

Built from

so — prefix · that (demonstrative)
From the demonstrative stem ta-/so-, pointing to a specific thing.
rata — stem · pleased, satisfied
Past participle of √ram 'to delight, enjoy'. Cognate with Sanskrit ramati and possibly Latin rāmus; the connection to the adjective 'gentle' arises through the sense of being pleased or content with something.

Etymology. From so- (pronoun stem, 'that') + rata (past participle of √ram 'to delight, enjoy, be satisfied'). The compound thus means 'delighted in that' or 'pleased with', hence figuratively 'well-disposed, gentle'. The root √ram is cognate with Latin rāmus 'branch' and Sanskrit ramati 'delights'; the semantic shift from 'branch' to 'delight' is obscure, but both may preserve an Indo-European root *rem- related to leisure or repose.

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

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