Pāli Dictionary

āsava1

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

su1流

Antonyms

anāsava

doctrine

  • 漏；煩惱之流（欲漏、有漏、見漏、無明漏四漏）；漏盡即阿羅漢果

  • 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

  • （瘡口的）流液；膿液；流出物

  • discharge; suppuration from a sore or wound; outflow

  • AN 3.27

    bhiyyosomattāya āsavaṃ deti

āsava2

āprefixsurootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • （花、果、蜜、糖所釀的）酒；酒漿

  • 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

is1欲求；希求

cosmology

  • 一類天神的名稱；字面意為「有欲」或「有希望」

  • 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

su1流

general

  • 流動；流向；發生，產生

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

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

nasava
  1. na

    不；非；沒有（否定小品詞；複合詞中亦作否定前綴）

  2. savasavati

    （河流等）流動；奔流

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