Pāli Dictionary

namas

namrootassuffix

via inflected form namassa · dative singular / genitive singular

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

nam1වංගුව

general

  • ගෞරවය; වන්දනය; නමස්කාරය (බොහෝ විට *namo* යන උද්ගෝෂණය ලෙස භාවිතා වේ)

  • reverence; homage; veneration (often used as the exclamation *namo* with the dative)

  • DN 21

    namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa

namassati

namassastemtisuffix

via inflected form namassa · 2nd person·imperative singular

Part of speech

verb

Synonyms

pūjeti, māneti, maheti, apacāyati

ethics

  • වඳියි; ගරු කරයි; පූජා කරයි; නමස්කාර කරයි

  • worships; venerates; reveres; pays homage to

  • AN 4.63

    tasmā hi ne namasseyya, sakkareyya ca paṇḍito, annena atha pānena, vatthena sayanena ca.

  • AN 10.176

    no ce haritāni tiṇāni āmaseyyāsi, aggiṃ paricareyyāsi. no ce aggiṃ paricareyyāsi, pañjaliko ādiccaṃ namasseyyāsi

nāma

approximate

via inflected form nāmassa · dative singular / genitive singular

Part of speech

noun · neuter

Synonyms

kho, hi, sadda, byā, khu, avhaya

general

  • නම; නාමය

  • name; personal name

  • MN 26

    api ca kho maṃ nāmena ca āvusovādena ca samudācaranti

  • නම් ඇති; නම් වූ

  • (after a noun) named; called; by the name of; namely

  • MN 40

    bhagavā aṅgesu viharati assapuraṃ nāma aṅgānaṃ nigamo

  • AN 10.96

    ko nāmo āyasmā, kathañ'ca pan'āyasmantaṃ sabrahmacārī jānantī'ti? ānando'ti kho me, āvuso, nāmaṃ. ānando'ti ca pana maṃ sabrahmacārī jānantī'ti.

  • SN 20.7

    bhūtapubbaṃ, bhikkhave, dasārahānaṃ ānako nāma mudiṅgo ahosi. tassa dasārahā ānake ghaṭite aññaṃ āṇiṃ odahiṃsu.

  • ඒකාන්තයෙන්; සැබවින්ම

  • (emphatic particle) indeed; certainly; surely (often with astonishment or reproach)

  • AN 8.30

    seyyathāpi nāma balavā puriso samiñjitaṃ vā bāhaṃ pasāreyya

  • (ව්‍යාකරණ) නාම පදය

  • (grammar) noun; nominal word; substantive

doctrine

  • නාමය; (රූපයට ප්‍රතිපක්ෂ) චිත්ත චෛතසිකාදි අරූප ධර්ම

  • mentality; the mental factors (paired with rūpa): feeling, perception, intention, contact, attention; or the four immaterial aggregates

  • DN 11

    ettha nāmañca rūpañca, asesaṃ uparujjhati

  • DN 16

    kattha āpo ca pathavī, tejo vāyo na gādhati, kattha dīghañ'ca rassañ'ca, aṇuṃ thūlaṃ subh'āsubhaṃ, kattha nāmañ'ca rūpañ'ca, asesaṃ uparujjhatī'ti?

  • AN 6.61

    evaṃ vutte aññataro bhikkhu there bhikkhū etadavoca, nāmaṃ kho, āvuso, eko anto, rūpaṃ dutiyo anto, viññāṇaṃ majjhe, taṇhā sibbinī.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

nāmāassā
  1. nāmānāma

    නම; නාමය

  2. assā

    වෙළඹ; අශ්වධෙනුව

nāmaissā
  1. nāma

    නම; නාමය

  2. issā

    ඊර්ෂ්‍යාව; අනුන්ගේ සැපතට නොඉවසීම

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