1. (adj.) bad, nasty; bitter, acrid; insipid, disgusting AN.i.72; Ja.ii.96; Ja.ii.159.
2. (m.)
   1. fault, vice, defect MN.i.281; Pts.ii.87
   2. leavings, dregs Vv-a.288 (variant reading sakaṭa)
   3. something bitter or nasty Ja.ii.96; Ja.v.18-
   4. bitter juice Ja.ii.105 (nimba˚)

■ sa˚; faulty wrong, bitter to eat, unpalatable Mil.119.

• -odaka insipid, tasteless water Ja.ii.97.

metathesis of sakaṭa, cp. Trenckner, Mil p.423