Pāli Dictionary

kaṃ1

kastemaṃsuffix

Part of speech

pronoun

general

  • which?; what?; whom? (accusative singular of ‘ka’)

  • Ud 5.5

    atha kho āyasmato mahāmoggallānassa etadahosi, kaṃ nu kho bhagavā puggalaṃ sandhāya evam'āha, aparisuddhā, ānanda, parisā'ti?

  • Snp 5.3

    ko'dha santusito loke, kassa no santi iñjitā, ko ubh'antam'abhiññāya, majjhe mantā na lippati, kaṃ brūsi mahāpuriso'ti, ko idha sibbinim'accagā.

kaṃ2

Part of speech

indeclinable

Root

ud2be wet

general

  • water; the head; happiness; wealth

ka1

via inflected form kaṃ · nominative singular / accusative singular

Part of speech

pronoun

Synonyms

katama

general

  • who? what? which? (interrogative pronoun and adjective)

ki

via inflected form kaṃ · nominative singular / accusative singular

Part of speech

pronoun

Synonyms

katama

general

  • interrogative pronoun base (alternative base of ‘ka’); who?; what?; which?

  • MN 7

    kiṃ sundarikā karissati, kiṃ payāgo kiṃ bāhukā nadī, veriṃ katakibbisaṃ naraṃ, na hi naṃ sodhaye pāpakamminaṃ.

  • Snp 4.16

    ky'āssa byappathayo assu, ky'āss'assu idha gocarā, kāni sīlabbatān'āssu, pahit'attassa bhikkhuno.

  • (as indeclinable) particle of comparison; like; as; similar to

ka2

udrootakasuffix

via inflected form kaṃ · nominative singular / accusative singular / vocative singular

Part of speech

noun · neuter

Synonyms

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

general

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

approximate

kam1go

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