Pāli Dictionary

gāmaṇi

gāmastemaṇisuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Synonyms

seṭṭha, pāmokkha, gāmaṇika

general

  • village chief; headman; leader

  • Thag 16.1

    suddhaṃ dhammasamuppādaṃ, suddhaṃ saṅkhārasantatiṃ, passantassa yathābhūtaṃ, na bhayaṃ hoti gāmaṇi.

  • SN 42.10

    tena kho pana samayena maṇicūḷako gāmaṇi tassaṃ parisāyaṃ nisinno hoti. atha kho maṇicūḷako gāmaṇi taṃ parisaṃ etadavoca, mā ayyā evaṃ avacuttha.

  • (as adjective) chief; pre-eminent; noble

gāmaṇī

approximate

gāmastemaṇīsuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Synonyms

seṭṭha, pāmokkha, gāmaṇika

general

  • village chief; headman; leader; chief

  • (as adjective) chief; pre-eminent; noble

gāma

approximate

gāmastemasuffix

via inflected form gāmāni · nominative plural / accusative plural / vocative plural

Part of speech

adjective

Synonyms

gamma, pākata

general

  • vulgar; common; crude; related to a village

  • MN 112

    abrahmacariyaṃ pahāya brahmacārī ahosiṃ ārācārī virato methunā gāmadhammā.

gama

approximate

gamrootasuffix

via inflected form gamāni · nominative plural / accusative plural / vocative plural

Part of speech

adjective

Root

gam1go

general

  • going; able to go, leading to (usually as the final member of a compound)

  • MN 39

    seyyathā'pi bhikkhave puriso dāso assa anatt'ādhīno par'ādhīno na yenakāmaṃgamo

  • SN 1.38

    pañcavedā sataṃ samaṃ, tapassī brāhmaṇā caraṃ, cittañ'ca nesaṃ na sammā vimuttaṃ, hīn'attharūpā na pāraṅ'gamā te.

Encyclopedia

4 entries

Gāmaṇī
Personapproximate

  • A Tamil general, and the stronghold named after him, subdued by Duṭṭhagāmaṇī.

Gāmaṇī2
Personapproximate

  • A prince, the youngest of a hundred brothers, whose story is told in the Saṃvara Jātaka.

Gāmaṇī3
Otherapproximate

  • One of the six brothers of Bhaddakaccānā, who remained behind when the others departed for Sri Lanka.

Gāmaṇī4
Otherapproximate

  • A cross-reference to Dīgha-gāmaṇī, Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, and Āmaṇḍagāmaṇi.

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