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sugata

masc voc sg of sugata (adj); nt voc sg of sugata (adj); masc voc sg of sugata (noun)

1. faring well; going well; doing well; fortunate; who has reached the destination; lit. well gone
2. Accomplished One; Fortunate One; epithet of the Buddha; lit. well gone
3. standard; commonly accepted; (comm) indication that a given measure is to be multiplied by three; lit. well-gone

Built from

• su — prefix · well, good
  A prefix expressing favorable quality or ease. Cognate with Greek eu- from Indo-European *swen-, meaning 'good' or 'easy'.
• gata — stem · gone
  Past participle of gacchati 'to go', from Indo-European *gwem-. The concrete sense of physical movement becomes the abstract notion of having reached or attained a goal.

Etymology. su- (well, good) + gata (gone, past participle of gacchati 'go'). The spatial prefix su- 'well' compounds with gata 'gone' to denote one who has gone well, reached the destination successfully. Cognate with Greek eu- (eulogy, euthanasia) from the same Indo-European root; compare English 'well' and 'gate' (in the sense of a path or way, archaic).

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

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