Pāli Dictionary

sahetuka

saprefixheturootkasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Root

hi4send

Synonyms

hetuka

Antonyms

ahetuka

general

  • having a cause; accompanied by a (moral) root-cause

  • AN 2.80

    sahetukā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no ahetukā. tass'eva hetussa pahānā evaṃ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī'ti.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

sahetūkā
  1. sahetūsahetu

    with a cause; having a (root-)cause

  2. kā

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

sahetuūkā
  1. sahetu

    with a cause; having a (root-)cause

  2. ūkā

    a louse; also a small traditional unit of length (1 ūkā ≈ 7 likkhā)

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