sūkara

hog, pig Vin.i.200; DN.i.5; AN.ii.42 (kukkuṭa +), AN.ii.209; Iti.36; Ja.i.197 (muṇika); Ja.ii.419 (Sālūka); Ja.iii.287 (Cullatuṇḍila Mahā-tuṇḍila); Mil.118, Mil.267; Vb-a.11 (vara-sayane sayāpita)
■ f. sūkarī Ja.ii.406 (read vañjha˚).

  • -antaka a kind of girdle Vin.ii.136.
  • -maṃsa pork AN.iii.49 (sampanna-kolaka).
  • -maddava is with Franke (Dīgha translation 222 sq.) to be interpreted as “soft (tender boar’s flesh.” So also Oldenberg (Reden des B. 1922 100) & Fleet (J.R.A.S. 1906, 656 & 881). Scarcely with Rh. D. (Dial. ii.137, with note) as “quantity of truffles DN.ii.127; Ud.81 sq.; Mil.175.
  • -potaka the young of a pig Ja.v.19.
  • -sāli a kind of wild rice Ja.vi.531 (variant reading sukasāli).

Sk. sūkara, perhaps as sū + kara; cp. Av. hū pig, Gr. ̔ϋς; Lat. sūs; Ags. sū = E. sow