Pāli Dictionary

mānava

manurootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • a young man; a young gentleman; a young Brahman student

  • AN 7.64

    dummaṅku'yaṃ padasseti, dhūmaṃ dhūmī'va pāvako, yato patāyati kodho, yena kujjhanti mānavā.

māṇava1

approximate

manustemasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Synonyms

cora, adinnādāyī, theyya, thena, thenaka

general

  • young man; youth; especially a young Brahmin

  • person; human being; man (in plural: men, people)

ethics

  • thief; robber

  • MN 66

    bhūtapubbaṃ, bhante, bhikkhū ratt'andhakāratimisāyaṃ piṇḍāya carantā candanikam'pi pavisanti, oligalle'pi papatanti, kaṇṭak'āvāṭam'pi ārohanti, suttam'pi gāviṃ ārohanti, māṇavehi'pi samāgacchanti katakammehi'pi akatakammehi'pi, mātugāmo'pi te asaddhammena nimanteti.

māṇava2

approximate

manustemasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

monastic

  • Māṇava, name of an arahant monk

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

mānaiva
  1. māna

    pride; conceit; arrogance; egotism

  2. iva

    like; as; as if, as it were

mānāeva
  1. mānāmāna

    pride; conceit; arrogance; egotism

  2. eva

    only; just; merely; exclusively (restrictive emphatic particle)

Encyclopedia

Māṇava
Personapproximate

  • A monk from a wealthy Sāvatthi brahmin family who, shaken at age seven by his first sight of old age, sickness and death, renounced the world with his parents’ consent and was nicknamed for entering the Order while still a boy.

Thag 1.73

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