Pāli Dictionary

esa1

Part of speech

pronoun

Synonyms

sa, eso

general

  • මේ; ඔහු; එය; ඒ පුද්ගලයා (eta නාම සර්වනාමයේ පුංලිංග ප්‍රථමා ඒකවචන පදය; eso හි ස්වර ශබ්ද ඉදිරිපිට සන්ධි රූපය)

  • this; he; it; that person (masculine nominative singular of the demonstrative pronoun ‘eta’; sandhi form of ‘eso’ before vowels)

  • Dhp 5

    na hi verena verāni, sammant'īdha kudācanaṃ, averena ca sammanti, esa dhammo sanantano.

  • Snp 5.5

    yaṃ taṃ apucchimha akittayī no, aññaṃ taṃ pucchāma tadiṅgha brūhi, kathaṃ nu dhīrā vitaranti oghaṃ, jātiṃ jaraṃ sokapariddavañ'ca, taṃ me muni sādhu viyākarohi, tathā hi te vidito esa dhammo.

esa2

esrootasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

general

  • සොයන; ගවේෂණය කරන (විශේෂණය, esin හෝ esati හි වර්තමාන කෘදන්තයට සමාන)

  • seeking; searching for (adjective, equivalent to ‘esin’ or the present participle of ‘esati’)

esā

approximate

etastemsāsuffix

Part of speech

pronoun

general

  • ඇය; මේ; මෑ

  • she; this; this woman

  • AN 1.78

    appamattikā esā, bhikkhave, parihāni yadidaṃ bhogaparihāni. etaṃ patikiṭṭhaṃ, bhikkhave, parihānīnaṃ yadidaṃ paññāparihānī'ti.

  • DN 8

    pakati kho esā, kassapa, lokasmiṃ, dukkaraṃ sāmaññaṃ dukkaraṃ brahmaññan'ti.

eta

via inflected form esa · nominative singular

Part of speech

pronoun

Synonyms

ima

general

  • මේ; ඒ

  • this; that

  • MN 9

    dūrato'pi kho mayaṃ, āvuso, āgaccheyyāma āyasmato sāriputtassa santike etassa bhāsitassa attham'aññātuṃ

  • SN 1.4

    accenti kālā tarayanti rattiyo, vayoguṇā anupubbaṃ jahanti, etaṃ bhayaṃ maraṇe pekkhamāno, puññāni kayirātha sukh'āvahānī'ti.

esanta

esastemntasuffix

via inflected form esa · vocative singular

Part of speech

adjective

Root

es1සොයන්න

general

  • සොයන; සොයමින්

  • seeking; searching (for)

  • SN 7.13

    tuṇhībhūto bhavaṃ tiṭṭhaṃ, muṇḍo saṅghāṭipāruto, kiṃ patthayāno kiṃ esaṃ, kiṃ nu yācitum'āgato'ti.

esati

esaroottisuffix

via inflected form esa · 2nd person·imperative singular

Part of speech

verb

Synonyms

pariyesati, gavesati

general

  • සොයයි; ගවේෂණය කරයි; විමසයි

  • seeks; searches for; probes for

  • MN 105

    tassa so bhisakko sallakatto satthena vaṇamukhaṃ parikanteyya. satthena vaṇamukhaṃ parikantitvā esaniyā sallaṃ eseyya.

  • Snp 4.14

    ajjhattam'ev'upasame, na aññato bhikkhu santim'eseyya, ajjhattaṃ upasantassa, n'atthi attāṃ kuto nirattāṃ vā.

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