Pāli Dictionary

āsava1

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

su1ප්රවාහය

Antonyms

anāsava

doctrine

  • ආශ්‍රවය; ආසව (කාමාශ්‍රව, භවාශ්‍රව, දෘෂ්ට්‍යාශ්‍රව, අවිද්‍යාශ්‍රව)

  • taint; canker; mental effluent — the defilements that sustain the flow of rebirth (sense desire, existence, views, ignorance); their destruction is arahantship

  • MN 2

    jānato ahaṃ, bhikkhave, passato āsavānaṃ khayaṃ vadāmi

  • Snp 3.6

    chetvā āsavāni ālayāni, vidvā so na upeti gabbhaseyyaṃ, saññaṃ tividhaṃ panujja paṅkaṃ, kappaṃ n'eti tam'āhu ariyo'ti.

  • AN 4.189

    katame ca, bhikkhave, dhammā paññāya sacchikaraṇīyā? āsavānaṃ khayo, bhikkhave, paññāya sacchikaraṇīyo.

general

  • සැරව; පූයා

  • discharge; suppuration from a sore or wound; outflow

  • AN 3.27

    bhiyyosomattāya āsavaṃ deti

āsava2

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • මද්‍යය; මල් පලතුරු ආදියෙන් පෙරූ රා

  • fermented liquor made from flowers, fruit, honey or sugar; extract; spirit

āsavant

āsāstemvantsuffix

via inflected form āsavā · nominative singular · plural / vocative singular

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

is1සඳහා ප්රාර්ථනා කරන්න

cosmology

  • දෙවිවරුන් පිරිසකගේ නම (ආශාව ඇති අය)

  • name of a group of deities; literally ‘having desire’ or ‘having expectation’

  • DN 20

    khemiyā tusitā yāmā, kaṭṭhakā ca yasassino, lambītakā lāmaseṭṭhā, jotināmā ca āsavā, nimmānaratino āguṃ, ath'āguṃ paranimmitā.

āsavati

āprefixsurootasuffix

via inflected form āsava · 2nd person·imperative singular

Part of speech

verb

Root

su1ප්රවාහය

general

  • ගලා ‍යයි; ඇති වේ

  • flows; flows toward; comes to, occurs, happens

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

nasava
  1. na

    නැත; නොවේ; නො- (ප්‍රතිෂේධ නිපාතය)

  2. savasavati

    (ගඟ ආදිය) ගලා ‍යයි

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