Pāli Dictionary

ādīnava

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

dī3be afflicted

Synonyms

palibodha

Antonyms

assāda, ānisaṃsa

doctrine

  • danger; unsatisfactoriness; evil consequence (specifically of sensual pleasures, the aggregates, or conditioned phenomena; contrasted with gratification and escape)

general

  • disadvantage; drawback; danger; fault; evil consequence (in general contexts)

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 3

ādinavā
  1. ādi

    beginning; starting point; origin

  2. navā

    (grammatical term) sometimes; in some places; optionally; in some contexts

ādināiva
  1. ādināādi

    beginning; starting point; origin

  2. iva

    like; as; as if, as it were

ādināeva
  1. ādināādi

    beginning; starting point; origin

  2. eva

    only; just; merely; exclusively (restrictive emphatic particle)

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