as a term for Purgatory (niraya): see Bdhgh’s etym. of puggala Vism.310, as quoted under puggala.

male and female; men and women

gourd, pumpkin Dhp.149 (= Dhp-a.iii.112; vv. ll alābu & alābbu).

= alābu, with p for b: so Trenckner Notes 62¹⁶

…as follows: bhāvana-puṃsaka-niddeso, ek’okāsaṃ ekapassan ti vuttaṃ hoti, bhummatthe vā upayogavacanaṃ) Snp.580, Snp.1009,…

(Sk. karkāru, connected with karkaṭaka]

1. a pumpkin-gourd, the Beninkasa Cerifera Ja.vi.536 kakkārujātāni = valliphalāni (reading kakkaru to be corr.).
2. a heavenly flower Ja.iii.87, Ja.iii.88 = dibbapuppha

Lābuka = lāpu (alābu) gourd or pumpkin, often used as receptacle Ja.i.158 (˚ka), Ja.i.411 (˚kumbhaṇḍa vesseḷ made of the gourd); Ja.v.37 (˚ka), Ja.v.155 (addha-lābu-samā thanā); Dhp-a.ii.59 (˚ka) …

adverb opposite reciprocally, contrary Snp.825, Snp.882 (taken by Mnd.163 Mnd.290, on both passages identically, as n. pl. of adj. instead of adv., & expl^d by “dve janā dve kalaha-kāraka” …

…napparūpa abundant, napuṃsaka neuter, neka (= aneka) several; (b) natthi, natthika etc. (q.v.).

Ved. na = Idg. *ně; Lat. ne in n’…

…gender Kacc. 50; Pv-a.266 (is reading correct?)

Ved. napuṃsaka = na + puṃs “notmale”

scum, foam, froth, only in compounds viz.:

• -uddehakaṃ (adv.) (paccamāna, boiling) with scum on top, throwing up foam MN.iii.167; AN.i.141; Cnd.304#iii c; Ja.iii.46; Mil.357. …

…Kern.

Toevoegselen

s. v. takes it as pp. of *puṃsayati

…it as “male-cuckoo, Sk. puṃs-kokila] Ja.v.419, Ja.v.423; Vv-a.57
■ As phussaka at AN.i.188 (so read for…

…Kern.

Toevoegselen

s. v. takes it as pp. of *puṃsayati

…at Ja.iii.331 is gen. sg. of puṃs = Sk. puṃsaḥ.

contraction of purisa fr. *pūrṣa → *pussa → *possa → posa. So Geiger,

Pali…

…etym. connected with puṃs, although the fantastic explⁿ of native Commentators refers it to puṃ “a hell” and gal; so at…

…P.Gr. p. 79 Greiger,

Pali Grammar

§ 93#5.

see puṃs

to blow, aor. pumi Ja.i.171; ger. pumitvā Ja.i.172. See J.P.T.S. 1889 207 (?).

onomat. *pu to blow, cp. Gr. φυσα blowing, bubble, φυσάω blow, Lat. pustula = pustule, Sk. *pupphusa = P. pappha …

1. to clean, cleanse Vv-a.19 (+ visodheti, in def. of puñña).
2. to sift Ja.vi.108 (angāraṃ p. = attano sīse angāre p. okirati C. so read with variant reading for phunati T.); DN-a.i.268 (bhusaṃ pu …

man (as representative of the male sex, contrasted to itthi woman, e.g. at AN.iii.209; AN.iv.197; Ja.i.90; Ja.v.72; Pv-a.51). Definitions of the C. are “puriso nāma manussa-puriso …

…Sk. pota(ka young animal and base pu-in pumaṃs, puṃs “man”.

…pullinga; puṃs in napuṃsaka (cp. Prk. napuṃsaveya Pischel, Gram. § 412). The role of puṃs as contrast to…

…in meaning “best, chief” Vism.78 (muni˚) Thag-a.69 (Tha-ap.5) (nara˚).

puṃ + gava (see go), cp. Class. Sk. pungava…

the feathered part of an arrow Ja.ii.89. Cp. ponkha.

cp. Epic Sk. punkha, etym. puṃ (base of puṃs) + kha (of khan), thus “man-digging”?

rock, stone AN.i.283; Snp.447; Ja.i.109, Ja.i.199; Ja.v.295; Vism.28, Vism.182, Vism.183; Vb-a.64 (its size as cp^d with pabbata); Dhp-a.iii.151; Dhs-a.389; Vv-a.157; Sdhp.328.

• *-[gu …