Pāli Dictionary
general
giving; bestowing; offering (usually occurring as the final member of a compound, derived from dadāti / √dā).
SN 1.42
kiṃdado balado hoti, kiṃdado hoti vaṇṇado, kiṃdado sukhado hoti, kiṃdado hoti cakkhudo, ko ca sabbadado hoti, taṃ me akkhāhi pucchito'ti.
AN 5.37
āyudo balado dhīro, vaṇṇado paṭibhāṇado. sukhassa dātā medhāvī, sukhaṃ so adhigacchati. āyuṃ datvā balaṃ vaṇṇaṃ, sukhañ'ca paṭibhānakaṃ, dīgh'āyu yasavā hoti, yattha yatth'ūpapajjatī'ti.
da2
Part of speech
noun · masculine
general
the letter or sound ’d‘; the 26th letter of the Pāli alphabet; a dental consonant; (gram) an inserted, substituted, or dropped ’d’ in sandhi or word formation.
approximate
dā1give
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