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tibbā

tibba

masc nom pl of tibba (pp); fem nom sg of tibba (pp); fem nom pl of tibba (pp); nt nom pl of tibba (pp); …

1. sharp; piercing; acute
2. intense; keen; acute; lit. sharp
3. agony; torture; suffering; lit. sharp
4. dense; thick; dark

Built from

• tib — root · sharpen, point
  The root carries the imagery of making something tight, dense, or acutely pointed through compression. Cognate with Sanskrit tíkṣṇa and English thick.
• ba — ending · past participle
  The suffix -ba forms the past participle, creating an adjective that describes the result of the action: something that has been sharpened, intensified, or made keen.

Etymology. From √tib "to sharpen, make pointed"; the suffix -ba marks the past participle. Related to Sanskrit tíkṣṇa (sharp, keen) and English "thick" (originally "pressed close, dense"), both from the Indo-European root *teyk- meaning to make tight, thick, or sharp by pressing or compression.

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

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