…Vv-a.66 Cp. pagumba = gumba, in vana˚ Snp.233 (see Kp-a.192) veḷu˚ Thag.919

■ Acc. gumbaṃ (adv.) thickly, in masses balled together…

…Pv-a.68, Pv-a.113.

• -gumba a serried troop Ja.ii.406.
• -cakka wheel of power, of sovereignty…

… ■ Pv-a.274; Vv-a.301 (-gumba, brushwood, underwood); Dhp-a.i.171 (-pothana-ṭṭhāna); Dhp-a.iv.78 (-mūla).

not = Sk. kaccha,…

…does not mean goat.

inverted diaeretic form fr. Sk. gulma = P. gumba: viz. *golmika → *golmika → golomika

adjective one of the troop (of soldiers) Vin.i.345.

fr. gumba

…Ja.v.156 (j. ˚phalasannibha); Dhp-a.i.177 (˚gumba).

…& etym….

…Snp.38 (vaṃsa˚ = veḷugumba Cnd.556 and p. 58) Thag.72; Ja.i.74, cp. Ja.iii.179; Ja.vi.26; Mil.201 (vaṃsa˚) Vism.255…

…or jungle SN.ii.228.

• -gumba a th. bush Ja.i.208.
• -latā a th. creeper, the Capparis Zeilanica…

adjective free from bushes, clear Ja.i.187; Mil.3.

Sk. *nirgulma, nis + gumba

thicket, bush, clump of trees Snp.233.

pa + gumba

…Vv-a.258).

• -gumba experienced in many crafts Ja.vi.448 (= aneka-sippa-ññu C.).
• -jja (puthu 1, but see…

…Ja.i.324; Ja.iv.277 sq.; Ja.vi.421; Ja.vi.431 sq. (the two: Pupphaka & Sattigumba); Dhp-a.i.284 (˚rājā). fem. suvī Ja.vi.421.

cp. Sk….

(= thambha 3) a clump of grass Vv-a.276 (= gumba).

…-gumba a dense cluster of trees Vv.81#7 (cp. Vv-a.315).

• -caraka a forester Snp-a.51 (in…

…at Cnd.556 as “veḷugumba,” at Snp-a.76 as “veḷu”), ibid. (˚kaḷīra) Ja.vi.57; Vism.255 (˚kaḷīra); Kp-a.50 (id.). 2. race…

…of a bamboo Vin.ii.110

• -gumba a bamboo thicket Snp-a.49, Snp-a.75.
• -daṇḍa a bamboo stick…

…only in compounds, e.g. -gumba thicket of bamboo Dhp-a.i.177; -tinduka the tree Diospyros Ja.v.405 (= timbaru C.); -daṇḍaka…

…at DN-a.i.80, viz. hima˚ & gumba˚ or hidden by the snow & a thicket; the pop. etym given here is “janaṃ musanti,” i.e. they steal, or…

…Yama) or “Thicket-er (fr. gumba thicket) Ja.iii.200, Ja.iii.201. Disāmukha “Sky-facer” Dhp-a.iv.209. Yamamoli “Yamachignon…