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vatthassa

vattha

nt dat sg of vattha (noun); nt gen sg of vattha (noun); masc dat sg of vattha (adj); nt dat sg of vattha (adj); …

  1. cloth; clothes; robe
  2. corn
  3. with clothes; clothed

Etymology. From Proto-Indo-European *wet- 'to weave' or related to √vat 'to cover'. Cognate with Sanskrit vastra 'cloth, garment'; English woad (a dye plant, from the root sense of weaving fibers). The word denotes woven material from its root imagery of interlacing threads.

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

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