āḷhika

Āḷhiya & āḷhika

(adj.) rich, happy, fortunate; only in neg. anāḷhiya poor, unlucky, miserable MN.i.450; MN.ii.178 (+ daḷidda) AN.iii.352 sq. (so read with variant reading BB. ˚āḷhika for T ˚āḷika; combd. with daḷidda; variant reading SS. anaddhika); Ja.v.96, Ja.v.97 (+ daḷidda; C. na āḷhika).

fr. *āḷha, Sk. āḍhya, orig. possessing grain, rich in grain, i.e. wealth; semantically cp dhañña2