Pāli Dictionary

kaṭaka1

Part of speech

noun · neuter

general

  • a bracelet; anything circular, a ring

kaṭaka2

Part of speech

noun · neuter

general

  • a mountain ridge; rocky cave, side of a mountain

kataka

approximate

Part of speech

noun · neuter

general

  • a water-clearing nut (used to precipitate sediment from muddy water); also an earthenware foot-scrubber

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

kāṭakā
  1. kāṭa

    a hole; (in commentaries) the penis, the male organ

  2. kā

    who?; what?; which?; which woman? (interrogative pronoun, feminine singular nominative of ‘ka’)

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