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Concise Pali-English Dictionary
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera

 

 

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jagati

: [f.] the earth; the world.

jagatippadesa

: [m.] a spot on the earth.

jagatiruha

: [m.] a tree.

jagiṃsanta

: [pr.p. of] wishing to have.

jaggati

: [jagg + a] watches over; nourishes; lies awake.

jaggana

: [nt.] tending; bringing up; watchfulness. || jagganā (f.) tending; bringing up; watchfulness.

jaggi

: [aor. of jaggati] watched over.

jaggitvā

: [abs. of jaggati] having watched over.

jagghati

: [jaggh + a] laughs; derides.

jagghanā

: [f.] laughter.

jagghi

: [aor. of jagghati] laughed; derided.

jagghita

: [nt.] laughter.

jaghana

: [nt.] the lion; the buttocks.

jaghi

: [aor. of jagghati] laughed; derided.

jaṅgama

: [adj.] movable.

jaṅgala

: [nt.] jungle; a sandy and waterless place.

jaṅghapesanika

: [nt.] carrying messages on foot; (m.), one who carries messages.

jaṅghamagga

: [m.] foot-path.

jaṅghā

: [f.] the lower leg; the calf of the leg.

jaṅghābala

: [nt.] strength of the leg.

jaṅghāvihāra

: [m.] a walk.

jaṅgheyya

: [nt.] a knee-piece.

jacca

: [adj.] (in cpds.), having such a birth. || jaccā = jātivā

jaccandha

: [adj.] blind from birth.

jajjara

: [adj.] feeble with age; old; vithered.

jajjarita

: [pp. of jarati] weakened.

jañña

: [adj.] pure; noble; charming; of good birth. || jaññā (3rd sing. pot. of ñā), to know.

jaṭādhara

: [m.] an ascetic wearing matted hair.

jaṭita

: [pp.] entangled; plaited.

jaṭiya

: [m.] a kind of ascetics with matted hair.

jaṭila

: [m.] a kind of ascetics with matted hair.

jaṭhara

: [m.; nt.] the belly; the stomach.

jaṭharaggi

: [(jhaṭhara + aggi) m.] gestation.

jaṇṇu

: [nt.] the knee.

jaṇṇukā

: [f.] the knee.

jaṇṇumatta

: [adj.] knee-deep.

jatu

: [nt.] the lac; sealing wax. || jātu (ind.) surely; undoubtedly.

jatukā

: [f.] a bat.

jatumaṭṭhaka

: [nt.] something encased with lac.

jattu

: [nt.] the shoulder.

jana

: [m.] a person; a man; the people.

janaka

: [m.] a producer; father. (adj.), producing; generating. || jānaka (nt.) knowledge; recognition.

janakāya

: [m.] a crowd of people.

janakāyatā

: [f.] a gathering of people.

janatā

: [f.] populace.

janana

: [nt.] production; causing.

jananī

: [f.] the mother.

janapada

: [m.] a province; a country; country-side. || jānapada (adj.) belonging to the country; (m.) a rustic. plu. country-folk.

janapadakalyāṇī

: [f.] the most beautiful girl in a country.

janapadacārikā

: [f.] travelling in a country.

janasammadda

: [m.] crowding of the people.

janādhipa

: [m.] a king (of men).

janikā

: [f.] the mother; genetrix.

janita

: [pp. of janeti] generated; produced.

janinda

: [m.] a king (of men).

janeti

: [jan + e] generates; produces; gives birth.

janetu

: [m.] producer; generator.

janettī

: [f.] the mother.

janetvā

: [abs. of janeti] having generated; having produced.

janenta

: [pr.p. of janeti] generating; producing.

jantāghara

: [nt.] a hot room for steam bath.

jantu

: [m.] a creature; living being.

japa

: [m.] muttering. || japā (f.) China-rose.

japati

: [jap + a] utters; mumbles; recites.

japana

: [nt.] mumbling; whispering.

japi

: [aor. of japati] uttered; mumbled.

japita

: [pp. of japati] uttered; mumbled.

japitvā

: [abs. of japati] having uttered; having mumbled.

jappana

: [nt.] mumbling; whispering. || jappanā (f.) greed; talk for gain.

jappā

: [f.] greed; talk for gain.

jambāra

: [m.] the orange tree; (nt.), orange.

jambālī

: [f.] a dirty pool.

jambīra

: [m.] the orange tree. (nt.) orange.

jambu

: [f.] the rose-apple tree. || jambū (f.) the rose-apple tree.

jambuka

: [m.] a jackal.

jambudīpa

: [m.] the country of the rose-apples; i.e. lndia.

jambupakka

: [nt.] the fruit of Eugenia Jambolana.

jambusaṇḍa

: [m.] rose-apple grove.

jambonada

: [nt.] a sort of gold coming from the Jambu river.

jambhati

: [jabh + ṃ + a] yawns; arouses oneself.

jambhanā

: [f.] yawning; arousing.

jambhi

: [aor. of jambhati] yawned; aroused oneself.

jamma

: [adj.] vulgar; contemptible.

jaya

: [m.] victory; conquest. || jāyā (f.) wife.

jayaggaha

: [m.] conquest; the lucky throw or lot. || jayaggāha (m.) conquest; the lucky throw or lot.

jayati

: [ji + a] conquers; surpasses; defeats. || jāyati (jan + ya) is born; arises.

jayanta

: [pr.p. of jayati] conquering; surpassing. || jāyanta (pr.p. of jāyati), arising.

jayapāna

: [nt.] the drink of victory.

jayampati

: [m.] the husband and wife.

jayasumana

: [nt.] the red China-rose.

jayi

: [aor. of jayati] conquered; surpassed. || jāyi (aor. of jāyati), arose.

jayitvā

: [abs. of jayati] having conquered; having surpassed. || jāyitvā (abs. of jāyati), having arisen.

jara

: [m.] fever. (adj.), old; decayed; decrepit. || jarā (f.) decay; old age. jāra (m.) a paramour.

jaraggava

: [m.] an old bull.

jaratā

: [f.] decay; old age.

jarasakka

: [m.] the old sakka, (the deva-king).

jarājajjara

: [adj.] feeble an decrepit with age.

jarājiṇṇa

: [adj.] feeble an decrepit with age.

jarādukkha

: [nt.] suffering through the old age.

jarādhamma

: [adj.] subject to growing old or decaying.

jarābhaya

: [nt.] fear of old age or decay.

jarūdapana

: [nt.] decayed well.

jala

: [nt.] water. || jaḷa (adj.) slow; stupid. (m.) a stupid person. jāla (nt.) a net; entanglement. jālā (f.) flame.

jalagocara

: [adj.] living in the water; aquatic. (m.), a fish.

jalacara

: [adj.] living in the water; aquatic. (m.), a fish.

jalaja

: [adj.] born or sprung from the water. (nt.), a lotus.

jalati

: [jal + a] shines; burns.

jalada

: [m.] a rain-cloud.

jaladhara

: [m.] a rain-cloud. || jalādhāra (jala + adhāra) m. deposit of water; reservoir.

jaladhi

: [m.] the ocean.

jalana

: [nt.] shining; burning.

jalaniggama

: [m.] an outlet for water; a drain.

jalanidhi

: [m.] the ocean.

jalanta

: [pr.p. of jalati] shining; burning; blazing.

jalamānā

: [pr.p. of jalati] shining; burning.

jalābu

: [m.] the placenta.

jalābuja

: [adj.] born in a placenta; viviparous.

jalālaya

: [m.] a lake; an artificial tank.

jalāsaya

: [(jala + asaya), m.] a lake; an artificial tank.

jali

: [aor. of jalati] shone; burnt.

jalitvā

: [abs. of jalati] having shone; having burnt.

jalūkā

: [f.] a leech.

jalla

: [nt.] wet-dirt.

jallikā

: [f.] dirt (on the body); decayed outer bark of the tree.

java

: [m.] speed; strength.

javati

: [ju + a] runs; hastens; hurries.

javana

: [nt.] impulse; alacrity; swift understanding; running. (adj.), swift.

javanapaññā

: [adj.] having swift understanding.

javanikā

: [f.] a screen; curtain.

javamānā

: [pr.p. of javati] running; hurrying.

javi

: [aor. of javati] ran; hastened; hurried.

javita

: [pp. of javati] run; hastened; hurried.

javitvā

: [abs. of javati] having run; having hurried.

jaha

: [adj.] (in cpds.), leaving behind; giving up.

jahati

: [hā + a; hā is duplicated and the first hā is changed to ja] leaves; abandons; gives up; forsakes. || jahāti = jahati.

jahanta

: [pr.p. of jahati] leaving; abandoning.

jahāra

: [v.] (he) has left.

jahi

: [aor. of jahati] left; abandoned.

jahita

: [pp. of jahati] left; abandoned.

jahitabbā

: [pt.p. of jahati] should be left.

jahitvā

: [abs. of jahati] having left; having abandoned.

jāgara

: [adj.] awake; vigilant; watchful.

jāgaraṇa

: [nt.] keeping awake.

jāgarati

: [jāgar + a] to be awake or watchful.

jāgaranta

: [pr.p. of jāgarati] awaking.

jāgari

: [aor. of jāgarati] awoke.

jāgarijāṇuyoga

: [m.] vigilance; practice of watchfulness.

jāgarita

: [nt.] wakeful state.

jāgariya

: [nt.] vigil; waking.

jāgariyānuyoga

: [m.] vigilance; practice of watchfulness.

jāṇu

: [m.] the knee.

jāṇumaṇḍala

: [nt.] the knee-cap.

jāṇumatta

: [adj.] knee-deep.

jāta

: [pp. of jāyati] born; arisen; become; occurred; happened. (nt.), a collection or variety. || jaṭa (nt.) the handle (of a knife, etc.). jaṭā (f.) tangle; planting; matted hair.

jātaka

: [nt.] a birth story. (adj.), born; arisen.

jātakabhāṇaka

: [m.] a speaker of the Jātakas.

jātatta

: [nt.] the fact of being born.

jātadivasa

: [m.] birth-day.

jātarūpa

: [nt.] gold.

jātaveda

: [m.] fire.

jātassara

: [m.; nt.] a natural lake.

jāti

: [f.] birth; rebirth; race; nation; genealogy; a sort of; a kind of.

jātika

: [adj.] descended from; belonging to the class, clan, or nation of.

jātikosa

: [m.] mace (of nutmeg).

jātikkhaya

: [m.] destruction of the chance of being reborn.

jātikkhetta

: [nt.] birth-place; the realm of rebirth.

jātitthaddha

: [adj.] proud of (one's own), birth.

jātidhamma

: [adj.] subject to rebirth.

jātinirodha

: [m.] extermination of rebirth.

jātiphala

: [nt.] nutmeg.

jātimantu

: [adj.] of good birth; having genuine qualities.

jātivāda

: [m.] discussion about the parentage.

jātisaṃsāra

: [m.] circle of rebirths.

jātisampanna

: [adj.] of good birth or a noble family.

jātisambhava

: [m.] liability for birth.

jātisumanā

: [f.] jasmine.

jātissara

: [adj.] remembering former births.

jātihiṅgulaka

: [nt.] natural vermilion.

jānanaka

: [adj.] knowing.

jānanīya

: [adj.] what should be known.

jānanta

: [pr.p. of jānāti] knowing.

jānapadika

: [adj.] belonging to the country; (m.), a rustic. plu. country-folk.

jānamānā

: [pr.p. of jānāti] knowing.

jānāti

: [ñā + nā] knows; finds out; to be aware.

jānāpita

: [pp. of jānāpeti] caused to make known; caused to inform.

jānāpeti

: [caus. of jānāti] causes to make known; causes to inform; causes to reveal oneself.

jānāpetvā

: [abs. of jānāpeti] having caused to make known; having caused to inform.

jānāpesi

: [aor. of jānāpeti] caused to make known; caused to inform.

jāni

: [f.] loss; deprivation; the wife. (aor. of jānāti), knew; found out.

jānitu

: [inf. of jānāti] to know; to found out.

jānitvā

: [abs. of jānāti] having known; having found out.

jānipati

: [m.] the wife and husband.

jāmātu

: [m.] son-in-law.

jāyattana

: [nt.] the state of a wife.

jāyana

: [nt.] birth; arising.

jāyamāna

: [pr.p. of jāyati] arising.

jāyāpati

: [m.] wife and husband.

jārattana

: [nt.] the state of a paramour.

jārī

: [f.] an adultress.

jālaka

: [m.] a bud; a small net.

jālakkhika

: [nt.] a mesh of a net.

jālapūva

: [m.] pancake.

jālayamāna

: [pr.p. of jāleti] kindling; lighting.

jālākula

: [adj.] surrounded by flames.

jālika

: [m.] a fisherman who uses a net. || jālikā (f.) an armour made of chain.

jālita

: [pp. of jāleti] kindled; lighted. (pp. of jalati), shone; burnt.

jālinī

: [f.] lust; desire; craving.

jāleti

: [jal + e] kindles; lights; causes to burn.

jāletvā

: [abs. of jāleti] having kindled; having lighted.

jālenta

: [pr.p. of jāleti] kindling; lighting.

jālesi

: [aor. of jāleti] kindled; lighted.

jigiṃsaka

: [adj.] desirous of.

jigiṃsati

: [har + sa. har becomes giṃ; it is doubled and the former gin becomes ji] desires.

jigiṃsanā

: [f.] covetousness; desire for.

jigiṃsamāna

: [pr.p. of jigiṃsati] desiring.

jigiṃsā

: [f.] covetousness; desire for.

jigiṃsi

: [aor. of jigiṃsati] desired.

jigiṃsita

: [pp. of jigiṃsati] desired.

jigucchaka

: [adj.] one who disapproves of or dislikes.

jigucchati

: [gup + cha; gu is doubled and the first gu becomes ji] shuns; loathes; is disgusted at.

jigucchana

: [nt.] disgust for; dislike; detestation. || jigucchanā (f.) disgust for; dislike; detestation.

jigucchanta

: [pr.p. of jigucchati] shunning.

jigucchamāna

: [pr.p. of jigucchati] shunning.

jigucchā

: [f.] disgust for; dislike; detestation.

jigucchi

: [aor. of jigucchati] shunned; loathed.

jigucchita

: [pp. of jigucchati] shunned; loathed.

jigucchitvā

: [abs. of jigucchati] having shunned; having loathed.

jigucchiya

: [abs. of jigucchati] having shunned; having loathed.

jighacchati

: [ghas + cha; g is doubled and the first g is changed to ji. the s of the root becomes c.] is hungry; desires to eat.

jighacchā

: [f.] hunger.

jighacchi

: [aor. of jighacchati] had a desire to eat.

jighacchita

: [pp. of jighacchati] had a desire to eat.

jiñjuka

: [m.] wild liquorice.

jiṇṇa

: [pp. of jirati] became old; decayed.

jiṇṇaka

: [m.] an old person.

jiṇṇatā

: [f.] decrepitude.

jita

: [pp. of jināti] conquered; subdued; (nt.), victory.

jitatta

: [jita + atta] one who has subdued the mind.

jitta

: [nt.] mastery.

jitvā

: [abs. of jināti] having conquered; having subdued.

jina

: [m.] the conqueror; the victor; the Buddha. || jīna (pp. of jīyati), become old; decayed. (adj.) diminished; wasted; deprived of.

jinacakka

: [nt.] the doctrine of the Buddha.

jinanta

: [pr.p. of jināti] conquring; subdueing.

jinaputta

: [m.] a disciple of the Buddha.

jinasāsana

: [nt.] the Buddha's teaching.

jināti

: [ji + nā] conquers; subdues. || vijināti = jināti.

jini

: [aor. of jināti] conquered; subdued.

jinitvā

: [abs. of jināti] having conquered; having subdued.

jimha

: [adj.] crooked; slant; dishonest.

jimhatā

: [f.] crookedness; dishonesty.

jiyā

: [f.] a bow string.

jirati

: [jir + a] becomes old; decays.

jivhagga

: [(jivhā + agga) nt.] the tip of the tongue.

jivhā

: [f.] the tongue.

jivhāyatana

: [(jivhā + āyatana) nt.] the organ of taste.

jivhāviññāṇa

: [nt] the cognition of taste.

jivhindriya

: [(jivhā + indriya) nt.] the sense of taste.

jīmūta

: [m.] rain-cloud.

jīyati

: [ji + ya] becomes diminished; loses; becomes old; decays.

jīyamāna

: [pr.p. of jīyati] becoming old.

jīyi

: [aor. of jīyati] became diminished; decayed.

jīraka

: [nt.] cummin seed.

jīraṇa

: [nt.] decaying; getting old; digestion.

jīramāna

: [pr.p. of jirati] becoming old; decayed.

jīrāpita

: [pp. of jīrāpeti] caused to decay or digest.

jīrāpeti

: [caus. of jīrati] causes to decay or digest.

jīrāpenta

: [pr.p. of jīrāpeti] causing to decay or digest.

jīrāpesi

: [aor. of jīrāpeti] caused to decay or digest.

jīri

: [aor. of jirati] became old; decayed.

jīreti

: [caus. of jīrati] causes to decay or digest.

jīresi

: [aor. of jīreti] caused to decay or digest.

jīva

: [m.] the life.

jīvaka

: [m.] one who lives; a personal name.

jīvagāha

: [m.] catching alive.

jīvati

: [jiv + a] lives; subsists on.

jīvadanta

: [m.] the tusk of a living animal.

jīvana

: [nt.] living; means of subsistence; livelihood.

jīvanta

: [pr.p. of jīvati] living; subsisting on.

jīvamāna

: [pr.p. of jīvati] living; subsisting on.

jīvi

: [aor. of jīvati] lived; subsisted on. || jīvī (m.) one who lives. (in cpds.) leading a life of.

jīvikaṃ kappeti

: gets one's living.

jīvikā

: [f.] livelihood.

jīvita

: [nt.] life; span of life.

jīvitakkhaya

: [m.] the dissolution of life; death.

jīvitadāna

: [nt.] saving of life.

jīvitapariyosāna

: [nt.] the end of life.

jīvitamada

: [m.] the pride of life.

jīvitavutti

: [f.] livelihood.

jīvitasaṃsaya

: [m.] danger of life.

jīvitasaṅkhaya

: [m.] the solution for life.

jīvitāsā

: [(jīvita + āsa) f.] desire of life.

jīvitindriya

: [(jīvita + indriya), nt.] the faculty of life; vitality.

jīvitvā

: [abs. of jīvati] having lived.

juṇha

: [adj.] bright. || juṇhā (f.) moonlight; a moonlit night.

juṇhapakkha

: [m.] the bright half of the month.

juti

: [f.] effulgence; brightness.

jutika

: [adj.] having brightness.

jutindhara

: [adj.] resplendent; brilliant.

jutimantu

: [adj.] brilliant.

juhati

: [hu + a; hu is doubled and the first h becomes j] pours into fire; dedicates.

juhana

: [nt.] a sacrifice; an offering.

juhi

: [aor. of juhati] poured into fire; dedicated.

jūta

: [nt.] gambling.

jūtakāra

: [m.] a gambler.

je

: a particle used to address a slave woman or a woman of low grade.

jeguccha

: [adj.] contemptible; loathsome.

jegucchī

: [m.] one who detests or avoids.

jejassī

: [m.] brilliant.

jeṭṭha

: [adj.] elder; supreme; foremost.

jeṭṭhaka

: [adj.] chief; fore-most.

jeṭṭhatara

: [adj.] more old or superior.

jeṭṭhabhaginī

: [f.] the elder sister.

jeṭṭhabhātika

: [m.] the elder brother.

jeṭṭhabhātu

: [m.] the elder brother.

jeṭṭhamāsa

: [m.] name of a month, May-June.

jeṭṭhāpacāyana

: [nt.] respect to the elders.

jeṭṭhāpacāyī

: [m.] paying respect for the elders.

jetabba

: [pt.p. of jeti] fit to be conquered.

jeti

: [ji + e] conquers; subdues.

jetvā

: [abs. of jeti] having conquered; having subdued.

jenta

: [pr.p. of jeti] conquering.

jeyya

: [pt.p. of jeti] should be conquered.

jesi

: [aor. of jeti] conquered; subdued.

jessati

: [v.] he will defeat.

jotaka

: [adj.] illuminating; one who makes clear.

jotati

: [jut + a] shines; becomes bright.

jotana

: [nt.] shining; explanation. || jotanā (f.) shining; explanation.

jotanta

: [pr.p. of jotati] shining; becoming bright.

jotayamānā

: [pr.p. of joteti] illuminating; making clear.

joti

: [f.] light; radiance. (nt.), a star. (m.), fire. (aor. of jotati), shone; became bright.

jotita

: [pp. of joteti] illuminated; made clear.

jotipāsāṇa

: [m.] a crystal generating heat.

jotisattha

: [nt.] astronomy.

joteti

: [caus. of jotati] causes to illuminate; causes to make clear; causes to explain.

jotetu

: [inf. of joteti] to illuminate; to make clear; to explain.

jotetvā

: [abs. of joteti] having caused to illuminate; having caused to make clear.

jotenta

: [pr.p. of joteti] causing to illuminate; causing to make clear.

jotesi

: [aor. of joteti] caused to illuminate; caused to make clear.

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jhatvā

: [abs.] having burnt. || jhatvā = jhāpetvā.

jhasa

: [m.] a fish.

jhāna

: [nt.] concentration of mind; meditation (on a religious subject).

jhānaṅga

: [nt.] a constituent of meditation.

jhānarata

: [adj.] fond of meditation.

jhānavimokkha

: [m.] emancipation through jhāna.

jhānika

: [adj.] 1. one who has attained a jhāna. 2. belonging to a jhāna.

jhāpaka

: [m.] one who sets fire to.

jhāpana

: [nt.] setting fire to.

jhāpita

: [pp. of jhāpeti] was burnt; set fire to.

jhāpiya

: [abs. of jhāpeti] having burnt; having set fire to.

jhāpīyati

: [pass. of jhāpati] is burnt.

jhāpeti

: [caus. of jhāyati] caused to burn; causes to set fire to.

jhāpetvā

: [abs. of jhāpeti] having burnt; having set fire to.

jhāpenta

: [pr.p. of jhāpeti] causing to burn; causing to set fire to.

jhāpesi

: [aor. of jhāpeti] caused to burn; caused to set fire to.

jhāma

: [adj.] burnt; charred.

jhāmaka

: [adj.] burnt.

jhāyaka

: [m.] one who meditates.

jhāyati

: [jhā + ya] burns; to be on fire. || jhāyati (jhe + a), meditates or contemplates.

jhāyana

: [nt.] 1. burning; 2. meditation.

jhāyanta

: [pr.p. of jhāyati] meditating or contemplating.

jhāyi

: [aor. of jhāyati] meditated or contemplated. || jhāyī (m.) one who meditates.

jhāyitvā

: [abs. of jhāyati] having meditated or contemplated.

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