Concise Pali-english Dictionary – J –
– J –
jagati : [f.] the earth; the world.
jagatippadesa : [m.] a spot on the earth.
jagatiruha : [m.] a tree.
jagiṃsanta : [pr.p. of] wishing to have.
jaggati : [jagg + a] watches over; nourishes; lies awake.
jaggana : [nt.] tending; bringing up; watchfulness. || jagganā (f.) tending; bringing up; watchfulness.
jaggi : [aor. of jaggati] watched over.
jaggitvā : [abs. of jaggati] having watched over.
jagghati : [jaggh + a] laughs; derides.
jagghanā : [f.] laughter.
jagghi : [aor. of jagghati] laughed; derided.
jagghita : [nt.] laughter.
jaghana : [nt.] the lion; the buttocks.
jaghi : [aor. of jagghati] laughed; derided.
jaṅgama : [adj.] movable.
jaṅgala : [nt.] jungle; a sandy and waterless place.
jaṅghapesanika : [nt.] carrying messages on foot; (m.), one who carries messages.
jaṅghamagga : [m.] foot-path.
jaṅghā : [f.] the lower leg; the calf of the leg.
jaṅghābala : [nt.] strength of the leg.
jaṅghāvihāra : [m.] a walk.
jaṅgheyya : [nt.] a knee-piece.
jacca : [adj.] (in cpds.), having such a birth. || jaccā = jātivā
jaccandha : [adj.] blind from birth.
jajjara : [adj.] feeble with age; old; vithered.
jajjarita : [pp. of jarati] weakened.
jañña : [adj.] pure; noble; charming; of good birth. || jaññā (3rd sing. pot. of ñā), to know.
jaṭādhara : [m.] an ascetic wearing matted hair.
jaṭita : [pp.] entangled; plaited.
jaṭiya : [m.] a kind of ascetics with matted hair.
jaṭila : [m.] a kind of ascetics with matted hair.
jaṭhara : [m.; nt.] the belly; the stomach.
jaṭharaggi : [(jhaṭhara + aggi) m.] gestation.
jaṇṇu : [nt.] the knee.
jaṇṇukā : [f.] the knee.
jaṇṇumatta : [adj.] knee-deep.
jatu : [nt.] the lac; sealing wax. || jātu (ind.) surely; undoubtedly.
jatukā : [f.] a bat.
jatumaṭṭhaka : [nt.] something encased with lac.
jattu : [nt.] the shoulder.
jana : [m.] a person; a man; the people.
janaka : [m.] a producer; father. (adj.), producing; generating. || jānaka (nt.) knowledge; recognition.
janakāya : [m.] a crowd of people.
janakāyatā : [f.] a gathering of people.
janatā : [f.] populace.
janana : [nt.] production; causing.
jananī : [f.] the mother.
janapada : [m.] a province; a country; country-side. || jānapada (adj.) belonging to the country; (m.) a rustic. plu. country-folk.
janapadakalyāṇī : [f.] the most beautiful girl in a country.
janapadacārikā : [f.] travelling in a country.
janasammadda : [m.] crowding of the people.
janādhipa : [m.] a king (of men).
janikā : [f.] the mother; genetrix.
janita : [pp. of janeti] generated; produced.
janinda : [m.] a king (of men).
janeti : [jan + e] generates; produces; gives birth.
janetu : [m.] producer; generator.
janettī : [f.] the mother.
janetvā : [abs. of janeti] having generated; having produced.
janenta : [pr.p. of janeti] generating; producing.
jantāghara : [nt.] a hot room for steam bath.
jantu : [m.] a creature; living being.
japa : [m.] muttering. || japā (f.) China-rose.
japati : [jap + a] utters; mumbles; recites.
japana : [nt.] mumbling; whispering.
japi : [aor. of japati] uttered; mumbled.
japita : [pp. of japati] uttered; mumbled.
japitvā : [abs. of japati] having uttered; having mumbled.
jappana : [nt.] mumbling; whispering. || jappanā (f.) greed; talk for gain.
jappā : [f.] greed; talk for gain.
jambāra : [m.] the orange tree; (nt.), orange.
jambālī : [f.] a dirty pool.
jambīra : [m.] the orange tree. (nt.) orange.
jambu : [f.] the rose-apple tree. || jambū (f.) the rose-apple tree.
jambuka : [m.] a jackal.
jambudīpa : [m.] the country of the rose-apples; i.e. lndia.
jambupakka : [nt.] the fruit of Eugenia Jambolana.
jambusaṇḍa : [m.] rose-apple grove.
jambonada : [nt.] a sort of gold coming from the Jambu river.
jambhati : [jabh + ṃ + a] yawns; arouses oneself.
jambhanā : [f.] yawning; arousing.
jambhi : [aor. of jambhati] yawned; aroused oneself.
jamma : [adj.] vulgar; contemptible.
jaya : [m.] victory; conquest. || jāyā (f.) wife.
jayaggaha : [m.] conquest; the lucky throw or lot. || jayaggāha (m.) conquest; the lucky throw or lot.
jayati : [ji + a] conquers; surpasses; defeats. || jāyati (jan + ya) is born; arises.
jayanta : [pr.p. of jayati] conquering; surpassing. || jāyanta (pr.p. of jāyati), arising.
jayapāna : [nt.] the drink of victory.
jayampati : [m.] the husband and wife.
jayasumana : [nt.] the red China-rose.
jayi : [aor. of jayati] conquered; surpassed. || jāyi (aor. of jāyati), arose.
jayitvā : [abs. of jayati] having conquered; having surpassed. || jāyitvā (abs. of jāyati), having arisen.
jara : [m.] fever. (adj.), old; decayed; decrepit. || jarā (f.) decay; old age. jāra (m.) a paramour.
jaraggava : [m.] an old bull.
jaratā : [f.] decay; old age.
jarasakka : [m.] the old sakka, (the deva-king).
jarājajjara : [adj.] feeble an decrepit with age.
jarājiṇṇa : [adj.] feeble an decrepit with age.
jarādukkha : [nt.] suffering through the old age.
jarādhamma : [adj.] subject to growing old or decaying.
jarābhaya : [nt.] fear of old age or decay.
jarūdapana : [nt.] decayed well.
jala : [nt.] water. || jaḷa (adj.) slow; stupid. (m.) a stupid person. jāla (nt.) a net; entanglement. jālā (f.) flame.
jalagocara : [adj.] living in the water; aquatic. (m.), a fish.
jalacara : [adj.] living in the water; aquatic. (m.), a fish.
jalaja : [adj.] born or sprung from the water. (nt.), a lotus.
jalati : [jal + a] shines; burns.
jalada : [m.] a rain-cloud.
jaladhara : [m.] a rain-cloud. || jalādhāra (jala + adhāra) m. deposit of water; reservoir.
jaladhi : [m.] the ocean.
jalana : [nt.] shining; burning.
jalaniggama : [m.] an outlet for water; a drain.
jalanidhi : [m.] the ocean.
jalanta : [pr.p. of jalati] shining; burning; blazing.
jalamānā : [pr.p. of jalati] shining; burning.
jalābu : [m.] the placenta.
jalābuja : [adj.] born in a placenta; viviparous.
jalālaya : [m.] a lake; an artificial tank.
jalāsaya : [(jala + asaya), m.] a lake; an artificial tank.
jali : [aor. of jalati] shone; burnt.
jalitvā : [abs. of jalati] having shone; having burnt.
jalūkā : [f.] a leech.
jalla : [nt.] wet-dirt.
jallikā : [f.] dirt (on the body); decayed outer bark of the tree.
java : [m.] speed; strength.
javati : [ju + a] runs; hastens; hurries.
javana : [nt.] impulse; alacrity; swift understanding; running. (adj.), swift.
javanapaññā : [adj.] having swift understanding.
javanikā : [f.] a screen; curtain.
javamānā : [pr.p. of javati] running; hurrying.
javi : [aor. of javati] ran; hastened; hurried.
javita : [pp. of javati] run; hastened; hurried.
javitvā : [abs. of javati] having run; having hurried.
jaha : [adj.] (in cpds.), leaving behind; giving up.
jahati : [hā + a; hā is duplicated and the first hā is changed to ja] leaves; abandons; gives up; forsakes. || jahāti = jahati.
jahanta : [pr.p. of jahati] leaving; abandoning.
jahāra : [v.] (he) has left.
jahi : [aor. of jahati] left; abandoned.
jahita : [pp. of jahati] left; abandoned.
jahitabbā : [pt.p. of jahati] should be left.
jahitvā : [abs. of jahati] having left; having abandoned.
jāgara : [adj.] awake; vigilant; watchful.
jāgaraṇa : [nt.] keeping awake.
jāgarati : [jāgar + a] to be awake or watchful.
jāgaranta : [pr.p. of jāgarati] awaking.
jāgari : [aor. of jāgarati] awoke.
jāgarijāṇuyoga : [m.] vigilance; practice of watchfulness.
jāgarita : [nt.] wakeful state.
jāgariya : [nt.] vigil; waking.
jāgariyānuyoga : [m.] vigilance; practice of watchfulness.
jāṇu : [m.] the knee.
jāṇumaṇḍala : [nt.] the knee-cap.
jāṇumatta : [adj.] knee-deep.
jāta : [pp. of jāyati] born; arisen; become; occurred; happened. (nt.), a collection or variety. || jaṭa (nt.) the handle (of a knife, etc.). jaṭā (f.) tangle; planting; matted hair.
jātaka : [nt.] a birth story. (adj.), born; arisen.
jātakabhāṇaka : [m.] a speaker of the Jātakas.
jātatta : [nt.] the fact of being born.
jātadivasa : [m.] birth-day.
jātarūpa : [nt.] gold.
jātaveda : [m.] fire.
jātassara : [m.; nt.] a natural lake.
jāti : [f.] birth; rebirth; race; nation; genealogy; a sort of; a kind of.
jātika : [adj.] descended from; belonging to the class, clan, or nation of.
jātikosa : [m.] mace (of nutmeg).
jātikkhaya : [m.] destruction of the chance of being reborn.
jātikkhetta : [nt.] birth-place; the realm of rebirth.
jātitthaddha : [adj.] proud of (one’s own), birth.
jātidhamma : [adj.] subject to rebirth.
jātinirodha : [m.] extermination of rebirth.
jātiphala : [nt.] nutmeg.
jātimantu : [adj.] of good birth; having genuine qualities.
jātivāda : [m.] discussion about the parentage.
jātisaṃsāra : [m.] circle of rebirths.
jātisampanna : [adj.] of good birth or a noble family.
jātisambhava : [m.] liability for birth.
jātisumanā : [f.] jasmine.
jātissara : [adj.] remembering former births.
jātihiṅgulaka : [nt.] natural vermilion.
jānanaka : [adj.] knowing.
jānanīya : [adj.] what should be known.
jānanta : [pr.p. of jānāti] knowing.
jānapadika : [adj.] belonging to the country; (m.), a rustic. plu. country-folk.
jānamānā : [pr.p. of jānāti] knowing.
jānāti : [ñā + nā] knows; finds out; to be aware.
jānāpita : [pp. of jānāpeti] caused to make known; caused to inform.
jānāpeti : [caus. of jānāti] causes to make known; causes to inform; causes to reveal oneself.
jānāpetvā : [abs. of jānāpeti] having caused to make known; having caused to inform.
jānāpesi : [aor. of jānāpeti] caused to make known; caused to inform.
jāni : [f.] loss; deprivation; the wife. (aor. of jānāti), knew; found out.
jānituṃ : [inf. of jānāti] to know; to found out.
jānitvā : [abs. of jānāti] having known; having found out.
jānipati : [m.] the wife and husband.
jāmātu : [m.] son-in-law.
jāyattana : [nt.] the state of a wife.
jāyana : [nt.] birth; arising.
jāyamāna : [pr.p. of jāyati] arising.
jāyāpati : [m.] wife and husband.
jārattana : [nt.] the state of a paramour.
jārī : [f.] an adultress.
jālaka : [m.] a bud; a small net.
jālakkhika : [nt.] a mesh of a net.
jālapūva : [m.] pancake.
jālayamāna : [pr.p. of jāleti] kindling; lighting.
jālākula : [adj.] surrounded by flames.
jālika : [m.] a fisherman who uses a net. || jālikā (f.) an armour made of chain.
jālita : [pp. of jāleti] kindled; lighted. (pp. of jalati), shone; burnt.
jālinī : [f.] lust; desire; craving.
jāleti : [jal + e] kindles; lights; causes to burn.
jāletvā : [abs. of jāleti] having kindled; having lighted.
jālenta : [pr.p. of jāleti] kindling; lighting.
jālesi : [aor. of jāleti] kindled; lighted.
jigiṃsaka : [adj.] desirous of.
jigiṃsati : [har + sa. har becomes giṃ; it is doubled and the former gin becomes ji] desires.
jigiṃsanā : [f.] covetousness; desire for.
jigiṃsamāna : [pr.p. of jigiṃsati] desiring.
jigiṃsā : [f.] covetousness; desire for.
jigiṃsi : [aor. of jigiṃsati] desired.
jigiṃsita : [pp. of jigiṃsati] desired.
jigucchaka : [adj.] one who disapproves of or dislikes.
jigucchati : [gup + cha; gu is doubled and the first gu becomes ji] shuns; loathes; is disgusted at.
jigucchana : [nt.] disgust for; dislike; detestation. || jigucchanā (f.) disgust for; dislike; detestation.
jigucchanta : [pr.p. of jigucchati] shunning.
jigucchamāna : [pr.p. of jigucchati] shunning.
jigucchā : [f.] disgust for; dislike; detestation.
jigucchi : [aor. of jigucchati] shunned; loathed.
jigucchita : [pp. of jigucchati] shunned; loathed.
jigucchitvā : [abs. of jigucchati] having shunned; having loathed.
jigucchiya : [abs. of jigucchati] having shunned; having loathed.
jighacchati : [ghas + cha; g is doubled and the first g is changed to ji. the s of the root becomes c.] is hungry; desires to eat.
jighacchā : [f.] hunger.
jighacchi : [aor. of jighacchati] had a desire to eat.
jighacchita : [pp. of jighacchati] had a desire to eat.
jiñjuka : [m.] wild liquorice.
jiṇṇa : [pp. of jirati] became old; decayed.
jiṇṇaka : [m.] an old person.
jiṇṇatā : [f.] decrepitude.
jita : [pp. of jināti] conquered; subdued; (nt.), victory.
jitatta : [jita + atta] one who has subdued the mind.
jitta : [nt.] mastery.
jitvā : [abs. of jināti] having conquered; having subdued.
jina : [m.] the conqueror; the victor; the Buddha. || jīna (pp. of jīyati), become old; decayed. (adj.) diminished; wasted; deprived of.
jinacakka : [nt.] the doctrine of the Buddha.
jinanta : [pr.p. of jināti] conquring; subdueing.
jinaputta : [m.] a disciple of the Buddha.
jinasāsana : [nt.] the Buddha’s teaching.
jināti : [ji + nā] conquers; subdues. || vijināti = jināti.
jini : [aor. of jināti] conquered; subdued.
jinitvā : [abs. of jināti] having conquered; having subdued.
jimha : [adj.] crooked; slant; dishonest.
jimhatā : [f.] crookedness; dishonesty.
jiyā : [f.] a bow string.
jirati : [jir + a] becomes old; decays.
jivhagga : [(jivhā + agga) nt.] the tip of the tongue.
jivhā : [f.] the tongue.
jivhāyatana : [(jivhā + āyatana) nt.] the organ of taste.
jivhāviññāṇa : [nt] the cognition of taste.
jivhindriya : [(jivhā + indriya) nt.] the sense of taste.
jīmūta : [m.] rain-cloud.
jīyati : [ji + ya] becomes diminished; loses; becomes old; decays.
jīyamāna : [pr.p. of jīyati] becoming old.
jīyi : [aor. of jīyati] became diminished; decayed.
jīraka : [nt.] cummin seed.
jīraṇa : [nt.] decaying; getting old; digestion.
jīramāna : [pr.p. of jirati] becoming old; decayed.
jīrāpita : [pp. of jīrāpeti] caused to decay or digest.
jīrāpeti : [caus. of jīrati] causes to decay or digest.
jīrāpenta : [pr.p. of jīrāpeti] causing to decay or digest.
jīrāpesi : [aor. of jīrāpeti] caused to decay or digest.
jīri : [aor. of jirati] became old; decayed.
jīreti : [caus. of jīrati] causes to decay or digest.
jīresi : [aor. of jīreti] caused to decay or digest.
jīva : [m.] the life.
jīvaka : [m.] one who lives; a personal name.
jīvagāha : [m.] catching alive.
jīvati : [jiv + a] lives; subsists on.
jīvadanta : [m.] the tusk of a living animal.
jīvana : [nt.] living; means of subsistence; livelihood.
jīvanta : [pr.p. of jīvati] living; subsisting on.
jīvamāna : [pr.p. of jīvati] living; subsisting on.
jīvi : [aor. of jīvati] lived; subsisted on. || jīvī (m.) one who lives. (in cpds.) leading a life of.
jīvikaṃ kappeti : gets one’s living.
jīvikā : [f.] livelihood.
jīvita : [nt.] life; span of life.
jīvitakkhaya : [m.] the dissolution of life; death.
jīvitadāna : [nt.] saving of life.
jīvitapariyosāna : [nt.] the end of life.
jīvitamada : [m.] the pride of life.
jīvitavutti : [f.] livelihood.
jīvitasaṃsaya : [m.] danger of life.
jīvitasaṅkhaya : [m.] the solution for life.
jīvitāsā : [(jīvita + āsa) f.] desire of life.
jīvitindriya : [(jīvita + indriya), nt.] the faculty of life; vitality.
jīvitvā : [abs. of jīvati] having lived.
juṇha : [adj.] bright. || juṇhā (f.) moonlight; a moonlit night.
juṇhapakkha : [m.] the bright half of the month.
juti : [f.] effulgence; brightness.
jutika : [adj.] having brightness.
jutindhara : [adj.] resplendent; brilliant.
jutimantu : [adj.] brilliant.
juhati : [hu + a; hu is doubled and the first h becomes j] pours into fire; dedicates.
juhana : [nt.] a sacrifice; an offering.
juhi : [aor. of juhati] poured into fire; dedicated.
jūta : [nt.] gambling.
jūtakāra : [m.] a gambler.
je : a particle used to address a slave woman or a woman of low grade.
jeguccha : [adj.] contemptible; loathsome.
jegucchī : [m.] one who detests or avoids.
jejassī : [m.] brilliant.
jeṭṭha : [adj.] elder; supreme; foremost.
jeṭṭhaka : [adj.] chief; fore-most.
jeṭṭhatara : [adj.] more old or superior.
jeṭṭhabhaginī : [f.] the elder sister.
jeṭṭhabhātika : [m.] the elder brother.
jeṭṭhabhātu : [m.] the elder brother.
jeṭṭhamāsa : [m.] name of a month, May-June.
jeṭṭhāpacāyana : [nt.] respect to the elders.
jeṭṭhāpacāyī : [m.] paying respect for the elders.
jetabba : [pt.p. of jeti] fit to be conquered.
jeti : [ji + e] conquers; subdues.
jetvā : [abs. of jeti] having conquered; having subdued.
jenta : [pr.p. of jeti] conquering.
jeyya : [pt.p. of jeti] should be conquered.
jesi : [aor. of jeti] conquered; subdued.
jessati : [v.] he will defeat.
jotaka : [adj.] illuminating; one who makes clear.
jotati : [jut + a] shines; becomes bright.
jotana : [nt.] shining; explanation. || jotanā (f.) shining; explanation.
jotanta : [pr.p. of jotati] shining; becoming bright.
jotayamānā : [pr.p. of joteti] illuminating; making clear.
joti : [f.] light; radiance. (nt.), a star. (m.), fire. (aor. of jotati), shone; became bright.
jotita : [pp. of joteti] illuminated; made clear.
jotipāsāṇa : [m.] a crystal generating heat.
jotisattha : [nt.] astronomy.
joteti : [caus. of jotati] causes to illuminate; causes to make clear; causes to explain.
jotetuṃ : [inf. of joteti] to illuminate; to make clear; to explain.
jotetvā : [abs. of joteti] having caused to illuminate; having caused to make clear.
jotenta : [pr.p. of joteti] causing to illuminate; causing to make clear.
jotesi : [aor. of joteti] caused to illuminate; caused to make clear.
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jhatvā : [abs.] having burnt. || jhatvā = jhāpetvā.
jhasa : [m.] a fish.
jhāna : [nt.] concentration of mind; meditation (on a religious subject).
jhānaṅga : [nt.] a constituent of meditation.
jhānarata : [adj.] fond of meditation.
jhānavimokkha : [m.] emancipation through jhāna.
jhānika : [adj.] 1. one who has attained a jhāna. 2. belonging to a jhāna.
jhāpaka : [m.] one who sets fire to.
jhāpana : [nt.] setting fire to.
jhāpita : [pp. of jhāpeti] was burnt; set fire to.
jhāpiya : [abs. of jhāpeti] having burnt; having set fire to.
jhāpīyati : [pass. of jhāpati] is burnt.
jhāpeti : [caus. of jhāyati] caused to burn; causes to set fire to.
jhāpetvā : [abs. of jhāpeti] having burnt; having set fire to.
jhāpenta : [pr.p. of jhāpeti] causing to burn; causing to set fire to.
jhāpesi : [aor. of jhāpeti] caused to burn; caused to set fire to.
jhāma : [adj.] burnt; charred.
jhāmaka : [adj.] burnt.
jhāyaka : [m.] one who meditates.
jhāyati : [jhā + ya] burns; to be on fire. || jhāyati (jhe + a), meditates or contemplates.
jhāyana : [nt.] 1. burning; 2. meditation.
jhāyanta : [pr.p. of jhāyati] meditating or contemplating.
jhāyi : [aor. of jhāyati] meditated or contemplated. || jhāyī (m.) one who meditates.
jhāyitvā : [abs. of jhāyati] having meditated or contemplated.
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