appanā

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Either derived from inherited form *appaṇa from Sanskrit अर्पण (arpaṇa) by irregular decerebralisation and change of gender, or formed anew as app (root) + -anā from Pali appeti (to fix).

Noun

appanā f

  1. thought, reasoning, resolve[1]

Declension

References

  1. Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 51.
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