Pāli Dictionary

ākāsa1

āprefixkasrootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

doctrine

  • attraction; fascination; craving (taṇhā)

  • Snp 4.15

    purāṇaṃ n'ābhinandeyya, nave khantiṃ na kubbaye, hiyyamāne na soceyya, ākāsaṃ na sito siyā.

ākāsa2

āprefixkāsrootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

kās1shine; be visible

general

  • space; sky; air; open space; ether

  • a game played in the air; blind chess

doctrine

  • the element of space (ākāsa-dhātu); the sphere of infinite space (ākāsānañcāyatana)

ākāsati

āprefixkāsastemtisuffix

via inflected form ākāsa · 2nd person·imperative singular

Part of speech

verb

general

  • shines; gleams; is visible

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

nakāsa
  1. na

    not; no; neither; nor (negative particle; also as negative prefix in compounds)

  2. kāsa

    a cough

nakāsā
  1. na

    not; no; neither; nor (negative particle; also as negative prefix in compounds)

  2. kāsākāsa

    a tall grass growing along riverbanks, Saccharum spontaneum (kans grass)

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