Pāli Dictionary

kāṇa

approximate

Part of speech

adjective · masculine

general

  • borgne; aveugle d’un œil

  • blind in one eye; one-eyed; half-blind

  • SN 56.48

    tatr'assa kāṇo kacchapo. so vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṃ sakiṃ ummujjeyya.

  • AN 4.85

    so ca hoti dubbaṇṇo duddasiko okoṭimako bavh'ābādho kāṇo vā kuṇī vā khañjo vā pakkhahato vā, na lābhī annassa pānassa vatthassa yānassa mālāgandhavilepanassa seyyāvasathapadīpeyyassa.

  • un homme borgne

  • (substantively, m.) a one-eyed man

  • AN 3.13

    so ca hoti dubbaṇṇo duddasiko okoṭimako bavh'ābādho kāṇo vā kuṇī vā khañjo vā pakkhahato vā, na lābhī annassa pānassa vatthassa yānassa mālāgandhavilepanassa seyyāvasathapadīpeyyassa.

kaṇa

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • son de riz; riz brisé

  • rice husk powder; fine bran; broken rice

  • AN 4.198

    so sākabhakkho'pi hoti sāmākabhakkho'pi hoti nīvārabhakkho'pi hoti daddulabhakkho'pi hoti haṭabhakkho'pi hoti kaṇabhakkho'pi hoti ācāmabhakkho'pi hoti piññākabhakkho'pi hoti tiṇabhakkho'pi hoti gomayabhakkho'pi hoti, vanamūlaphal'āhāro'pi yāpeti pavattaphalabhojī.

ka

approximate

udrootakasuffix

via inflected form kāna · genitive plural

Part of speech

noun · neuter

Synonyms

udaka, uda, vāri, oka, toya, jala, odaka, daka,

general

  • eau; ainsi que Brahma, corps, vent, etc. (sens attribués à la syllabe “ka” dans les lexiques traditionnels)

  • water; also Brahma, body, wind, etc. (meanings assigned to the syllable ‘ka’ in traditional lexicons and grammatical literature)

Encyclopedia

Kāṇā
Person

  • La fille de Kāṇamātā, dont les dons répétés de gâteaux aux moines de passage poussèrent son mari à prendre une autre épouse, et dont l’amertume envers les moines fut ensuite dissipée après que le Bouddha l’eut convaincue de leur innocence.

  • The daughter of Kāṇamātā whose repeated giving away of cake to visiting monks led her husband to take another wife, and whose subsequent bitterness toward monks was resolved after the Buddha convinced her they were blameless.

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