greediness, covetousness, self-indulgence, desire; in the language of the Abhidhamma often syn. with jappā or taṇhā. At Dhs-a.365 loluppa is treated as an adj. & expl^d at “punappuna visaye lumpati ākaḍḍhatī ti,” i.e. one who tears again & again at the object (or as Expos. ii.470: repeated plundering, hauling along in the fields of sense)- Ja.i.340, Ja.i.429; Dhs-a.365; Vism.61; & with exegetical synonyms; loluppāyanā & loluppāyitattaṃ at Dhs.1059 Dhs.1136.

abstr. fr. lolupa