| akālika | immediately effective |
| akiriyavāda | doctrine of non-doing |
| akuppa | unshakeable |
| akusala | unwholesome |
| *akkhāyati | to be plain (evident) (11.13) |
| aṅga | factor |
| aṅgaṇa | blemish |
| *accādāya | overlapping (39.10; 53.10; 107.6; 125.18) |
| *accokkaṭṭha | too low (91.19) |
| ajjhatta | internal(ly) |
| ajjhosāna | holding |
| aññā | final knowledge |
| aṭṭhāna | impossibility |
| *atammayatā | non-identification (113.21; 137.20) |
| *atināmeti | to exceed (the right amount) (91.14) |
| *atinijjhāyitatta | excessive meditation (128.26) |
| *atipāteti | to shoot across (12.62) |
| atimāna | arrogance |
| attakilamatha | self-mortification |
| attabhāva | individuality |
| attā | self |
| attha | (1) meaning; (2) purpose; (3) good |
| atthaṅgama | disappearance |
| adukkhamasukha | neither-painful-nor-pleasant |
| adosa | non-hate |
| *adduva | knee (91.10) |
| adhikaraṇa | litigation |
| adhicitta | higher mind |
| adhiṭṭhāna | (1) decision; (2) foundation |
| adhimāna | overestimation |
| adhimuccati | to resolve upon |
| adhivāsanā | endurance |
| *adhisallekhatā | too exacting (66.7) |
| anagāriya | homelessness |
| anattā | not self |
| *anapāya | unrepelled (111.4; 112.4) |
| anāgāmin | non-returner |
| anicca | impermanent |
| animitta | signless |
| anissita | independent |
| anukampā | compassion |
| anupassanā | contemplation |
| *anupāya | unattracted (111.4; 112.4) |
| anubyañjana | feature |
| anusaya | underlying tendency |
| anussati | recollection |
| anussava | oral tradition |
| *anvākāri | flung (86.6) |
| *anvāgameti | to follow after (131.3) |
| *apakaṭṭha | too loose (91.19) |
| apadāna | attribute (129.2) |
| apāya | state of deprivation |
| *appaṭivibhattabhogin | one who shares without reservation (48.6; 104.21) |
| appaṇihita | desireless |
| *appabaddha | coherent (32.4) |
| appamāṇa | immeasurable |
| appamāda | diligence |
| *abbyāyeyya | would pull out (105.19) |
| abyāpāda | non-ill will |
| abhijjhā | covetousness |
| abhiññā | direct knowledge |
| abhinandati | to delight in |
| *abhinipphajjati | to come to, to be achieved (13.9) |
| *abhinipphanna | achieved, produced (101.28) |
| abhinivesa | adherence |
| abhibhāyatana | base for transcendence |
| abhibhū | overlord |
| abhivāadati | to welcome, to affirm |
| abhisaṅkhata | conditioned |
| abhisaṅkharoti | to generate, to perform |
| abhisañcetayita | volitionally produced |
| abhisamaya | penetration |
| amata | deathless |
| amanasikāra | inattention |
| amarāvikkhepa | eel-wriggling |
| amoha | non-delusion |
| ayoniso | unwise |
| arati | discontent |
| *arahati | to be proper (95.8) |
| arahant | untranslated: (1) a liberated person; (2) accomplished, Accomplished One |
| ariya | noble, noble one |
| ariyasacca | noble truth |
| ariyasāvaka | noble disciple |
| arūpa | immaterial |
| alobha | non-greed |
| avacara | sphere |
| *avadhāna | giving (ear) (95.30) |
| *avaloketi | to turn to look (91.10) |
| avijjā | ignorance |
| *avisārin | euphonious (91.21) |
| avihiṃsā | non-cruelty |
| aveccappasāda | perfect confidence |
| asaṅkhata | unconditioned |
| asappurisa | untrue man |
| asamaya | perpetual |
| asamayika | perpetual |
| asita | sickle (96.10) |
| asubha | foulness |
| asura | titan |
| asekha | one beyond training |
| asmimāna | the conceit "I am" |
| assāda | gratification |
| ahaṅkāra | I-making |
| ākāsa | space |
| ākāsānañcāyatana | base of infinite space |
| ākiñcañña | nothingness |
| ākiñcaññāyatana | base of nothingness |
| *ācariyaka | teacher's doctrine (26.15; 79.8) |
| ājīva | livelihood |
| ādīnava | danger |
| ānāpānasati | mindfulness of breathing |
| āneñja | imperturbable |
| āpatti | offence |
| *āpādetar | nurse (141.5) |
| āpo | water |
| ābhicetasika | pertaining to the higher mind |
| *āmaṇḍa | gallnut (120.12) |
| āmisa | material thing, worldly |
| āyatana | base |
| *āyatika | having as a basis (122.18) |
| āyu | life, life-term, vitality |
| āruppa | immaterial, immaterial realm |
| ālaya | worldliness |
| āsava | taint |
| *āhañcam | I will beat (26.25) |
| *āhattar | one who brings (89.18) |
| āhāra | nutriment |
| *icchati | to stir (28.22) |
| iñjita | perturbable |
| iddhābhisaṅkhāra | feat of supernormal power |
| iddhi | (1) supernormal power; (2) spiritual power; (3) success |
| iddhipāda | basis for spiritual power |
| indriya | faculty |
| iriyāpatha | posture |
| issā | envy |
| uccheda | annihilation |
| *uttarāraṇi | upper fire-stick (36.17; 93.11; 126.13) |
| uttarimanussadhamma | superhuman state |
| udayabbaya | rise and fall |
| uddhacca | restlessness |
| *upakāri | bastion (13.13) |
| upakkilesa | imperfection |
| *upadussati | to resent (135.11) |
| *upadhā | cushion (12.45) |
| upadhi | (1) attachment; (2) object of attachment |
| upanāha | revenge |
| *upapajjati | also: to be tenable (148.10) |
| upapatti | reappearance (by way of rebirth) |
| *upavicarati | to explore (137.8) |
| upavicāra | mental exploration |
| *upasaṅkamitar | one who approaches, visitor (12.30) |
| upasama | peace |
| upasampadā | full admission (to Sangha) |
| upādāna | clinging |
| upādinna | clung-to |
| upāyāsa | despair |
| upāsaka | man lay follower |
| upāsikā | woman lay follower |
| upekkhā | equanimity |
| ubbillā | elation |
| usmā | heat |
| *ussaṭa | eminent (not as in PED) (82.28) |
| ussoḷhi | enthusiasm |
| *uruṇḍa | large enough (140.3) |
| ekaggatā | unification (of mind) |
| ekatta | unity |
| ekāyana | direct, going in one direction |
| ekodibhāva | singleness (of mind) |
| *etaparama | at most (12.52) |
| *okkappaniya | believable (36.45) |
| ottappa | fear of wrongdoing |
| *odhasta | lying ready (21.7; 119.31) |
| *opakkama | due to exertion (101.14) |
| *opārambha | censurable (88.8) |
| obhāsa | light |
| kathā | talk |
| kappa | aeon |
| kamma | action |
| kammanta | action |
| karuṇā | compassion |
| *kalabhāga | fraction (129.9) |
| kalyāṇa | good |
| kasiṇa | untranslated: meditation device |
| *kasimāna | emaciation (12.52; 25.9) |
| *kākaṭidāyin | open to crows (66.11) |
| kāma | (1) sensual pleasure; (2) sensual desire; (3) sense-sphere (being) |
| kāmaguṇa | cord of sensual pleasure |
| kāmacchanda | sensual desire |
| kāya | body |
| kāyasakkhin | body-witness |
| *kisora | foal (93.14) |
| *kukkuka | fruit-bud core (of plantain tree) (35.22) |
| kukkucca | remorse |
| kusala | wholesome |
| *ko | also: where (81.20; 93.18) |
| kodha | anger |
| kopa | anger |
| khattiya | noble (caste) |
| khanti | (1) forbearance; *(2) acceptance (of a view) (22.11; 70.23; 95.14) |
| khandha | aggregate, mass |
| khaya | destruction |
| *kharigata | solidified (28.6; 62.8; 140.14) |
| *khīṇa | also: sharp (139.10) |
| *khurakā | prancing (65.33) |
| khurappa | hoof-tipped (kind of arrowhead) (63.5) |
| *khuḷukhulukāraka | making a splashing noise (91.15) |
| gaṇa | group, company |
| gati | (1) destination; (2) retentiveness |
| *gāmaṇḍala | village lout (93.18) |
| gocara | resort |
| *caṅgarava | sieve (23.2) |
| caraṇa | conduct |
| *carasā | prowling (66.6) |
| cāga | (1) generosity; (2) relinquishment |
| citta | mind |
| cittuppāda | inclination of mind |
| *cilīma | tendon (146.11) |
| cīvara | robe |
| cuti | passing away |
| cetanā | volition |
| ceto | mind, heart |
| cetokhila | wilderness in heart |
| cetovimutti | deliverance of mind |
| chanda | (1) desire; (2) zeal |
| chambhitatta | fear |
| jarā | ageing |
| jāgariya | wakefulness |
| jāti | birth |
| *jātibhūmi | native land (24.2) |
| *jāpeti | to fine (caus. of jahāti) (35.12; 89.13) |
| jīva | soul |
| jīvita | life |
| jhāna | (1) untranslated: meditative absorption; (2) meditation |
| *ñatta | renown (47.8) |
| ñāṇa | knowledge |
| ñāya | true way |
| ṭhāna | (1) state; (2) possibility |
| takka | reasoning |
| *tacchati | to pare, to plane (5.31; 130.12) |
| taṇhā | craving |
| tathāgata | untranslated: Thus Come One, Thus Gone One |
| tiracchānakathā | pointless talk |
| tiracchānayoni | animal realm |
| tulanā | scrutiny |
| *tālinī | silky (21.18) |
| tejo | fire |
| *telamasikata | dirty, oily (75.23) |
| thambha | obstinacy |
| thīna | sloth |
| daratha | disturbance |
| dassana | seeing, vision |
| dāna | giving, gift |
| diṭṭha | seen |
| diṭṭhi | view |
| diṭṭhiṭṭhāna | standpoint for views |
| diṭṭhippatta | one attained-to-view |
| dibbacakkhu | divine eye |
| dibbasota | divine ear |
| *dukkarakārikā | performance of austerities (12.56; 26.27) |
| dukkha | suffering, pain, painful |
| duggati | bad destination |
| duccarita | misconduct |
| *duṭṭhulla | inertia (64.9; 127.16; 128.21) |
| *dubbaca | difficult to admonish (15.2) |
| deva | god |
| devatā | deity |
| devadūta | divine messenger |
| domanassa | grief |
| dosa | hate |
| dhamma | (1) untranslated: the Buddha's teaching; (2) things, states, factors; (3) mind-objects; (4) qualities; (5) teachings; (6) (as suffix) subject to |
| dhammavicaya | investigation-of-states |
| dhammānusārin | Dhamma-follower |
| dhātu | element |
| *dhutta | (brewer's) mixer (35.5; 56.7) |
| dhuva | everlasting |
| natthikavāda | nihilism |
| nandī | delight |
| *narassika | manly (91.29) |
| nānatta | diversity |
| nāma | mentality |
| nāmarūpa | mentality-materiality |
| nicca | permanent |
| *niccakappaṃ | constantly (144.11) |
| niṭṭhā | (1) goal; (2) conclusion |
| nibbāna | untranslated: final deliverance from suffering |
| nibbidā | disenchantment |
| nimitta | (1) sign; (2) basis |
| *nimmathita | kindled (90.12) |
| niraya | hell |
| nirāmisa | unworldly |
| nirodha | cessation |
| *nisevita | scraping (27.10) |
| nissaraṇa | escape |
| nissita | dependent |
| *nihaniṃ | instituted (aor.) (83.21) |
| nīvaraṇa | hindrance |
| *nīhata | faultless (140.20) |
| nekkhamma | renunciation |
| nevasaññānāsaññāyatana | base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception |
| paccanubhoti | to experience |
| paccaya | condition |
| paccavekkhaṇā | reviewing, reflection |
| paccekabuddha | untranslated: a solitary enlightened one |
| pajā | generation |
| paññā | wisdom |
| paññāvimutta | one liberated-by-wisdom |
| paññāvimutti | deliverance by wisdom |
| *paṭikaroti | to carry out (instructions), to obey (125.12) |
| paṭikkūla | repulsive |
| paṭigha | (1) sensory impact; (2) aversion |
| paṭicca samuppāda | dependent origination |
| paṭinissagga | relinquishment |
| paṭipadā | (1) way, practice; (2) progress |
| *paṭivānarūpa | disappointed (104.2) |
| *paṭiveti | to disappear (111.4) |
| paṭisallāna | meditation |
| *paṭṭhita | gone out (12.49) |
| paṭhavī | earth |
| paṇīta | sublime |
| *paṇopanavidhā | haggling, bargaining (70.26) |
| paṇḍita | wise, wise man |
| *paṇḍumutika | (rice) stored in a sheaf (81.16) |
| *padumaka | (kind of wood) (93.11) |
| padhāna | striving |
| papañca | proliferation |
| *papatati | to flee (12.48) |
| pabbajjā | going forth (into homelessness) |
| pabhava | production |
| *pabhāvika | arising from (87.3) |
| *pabhāvita | selected (81.18) |
| pamāda | negligence |
| parāmāsa | adherence |
| *parikkamana | avoidance (8.14) |
| parikkhāra | requisite |
| *parikkhepeti | to utterly destroy (35.21) |
| pariggaha | possession |
| pariññā | full understanding |
| paritassanā | agitation |
| parideva | lamentation |
| parinibbāna | (1) final Nibbāna; (2) extinguishing |
| paribbājaka | wanderer |
| pariyuṭṭhāna | obsession |
| pariyesanā | search |
| palāsa | domineering |
| *pavaṭṭikā | ornamental chain (140.20) |
| *pavana | wilds (of forest) (19.25; 26.34) |
| paviveka | seclusion |
| pasāda | confidence |
| passaddhi | tranquillity |
| pahāna | abandonment |
| pahitatta | resolute |
| *paṭipuggalika | personal, for a particular person (142.5) |
| pāṇa | living being |
| pāṇātipāta | killing living beings |
| *pāṇupeta | for life (until the end of one's life) (4.35) |
| *pātavyatā | gulping down (45.3) |
| pātimokkha | untranslated: code of monastic rules |
| pāpa | evil |
| pāpicchā | evil desire |
| pāmojja | gladness |
| pāramī | perfection |
| pāripūri | fulfilment |
| pārisuddhi | purification |
| *pāsādanīya | inspiring, pleasing (89.4) |
| piṇḍapāta | almsfood |
| pisuṇā vācā | malicious speech |
| pīti | rapture |
| puggala | person |
| puñña | merit |
| puthujjana | ordinary person |
| punabbhava | renewal of being |
| pubbenivāsa | past life |
| *purindada | first of givers (56.29) |
| peta | ghost |
| pharati | to pervade |
| pharusā vācā | harsh speech |
| phala | fruit, fruition |
| phassa | contact |
| *baddha | imprisoned (39.14) |
| *bandha | imprisonment (19.7) |
| *bandhana | imprisonment (39.14) |
| bala | power |
| bahiddhā | external(ly) |
| bahulīkata | cultivated |
| bahussuta | learned |
| bāla | fool |
| *bāhulika | luxurious (26.26) |
| buddha | (1) untranslated; (2) enlightened, Enlightened One |
| bojjhaṅga | enlightenment factor |
| bodhisatta | untranslated: a future Buddha |
| byañjana | phrasing |
| byāpāda | ill will |
| *byābaṅgī | carrying-pole (96.10) |
| brahmacariya | holy life, celibacy |
| brahmavihāra | divine abode |
| brahmā | untranslated: (1) supreme God (for brahmins); (2) class of deities (for Buddhists) |
| brāhmaṇa | brahmin (caste) |
| bhagavā | blessed, Blessed One |
| bhaya | fear |
| bhava | being |
| *bhavyatā | ability (119.29) |
| bhāvanā | development |
| bhāvita | developed |
| bhikkhu | untranslated: Buddhist monk |
| bhikkhunī | untranslated: Buddhist nun |
| bhūta | (1) a being; (2) what has come to be |
| makkha | contempt |
| magga | path |
| macchariya | avarice |
| maññati | to conceive |
| maññita | conceiving |
| *maññussava | tide of conceiving (140.30) |
| *mattaṭṭhaka | lasting for a moment (28.7) |
| *mattha | churning-stick (126.17) |
| mada | vanity |
| manasikāra | attention |
| manussa | human |
| mano | mind, mental |
| mamaṅkāra | mine-making |
| maraṇa | death |
| mahaggata | exalted |
| *mahācca | pomp (82.28) |
| mahāpurisa | great man |
| mahābhūta | great element |
| *mahī | greatness (35.30) |
| mahesakkha | influential |
| mātikā | codes (summaries of teachings) |
| māna | conceit |
| māyā | deceit |
| micchā | wrong |
| micchācāra | misconduct |
| middha | torpor |
| muta | sensed |
| muditā | appreciative joy |
| muni | sage |
| musāvāda | false speech |
| mūla | root |
| mettā | loving-kindness |
| moha | delusion |
| yathābhūta | as it actually is |
| *yāvetadohi | as far as this (81.9) |
| yogakkhema | security from bondage |
| yoni | (mode of) generation |
| yoniso | wise, thorough |
| raṇa | conflict |
| rati | delight |
| rāga | lust |
| ruci | approval |
| rūpa | (1) form (visible object); (2) material form, materiality; (3) fine-material (being) |
| lābha | gain |
| loka | world |
| lokuttara | supramundane |
| lobha | greed |
| vacī | speech, verbal |
| vaṭṭa | round (of existence) |
| vata | observance |
| vaya | vanishing |
| vācā | speech |
| vāyāma | effort |
| vāyo | air |
| *vāla | strainer (35.5; 56.7) |
| vicaya | investigation |
| vicāra | sustained thought |
| vicikicchā | doubt |
| vijjā | true knowledge |
| viññāṇa | consciousness |
| viññāṇañcāyatana | base of infinite consciousness |
| viññāta | cognized |
| *viṭabhi | canopy (45.4) |
| vitakka | thought, applied thought |
| vinaya | (1) discipline; (2) removal |
| vinipāta | perdition |
| vinibandha | shackle |
| *vipakkamati | to disperse (127.11) |
| vipariṇāma | change |
| *vipariyāsa | (mental) derangement (104.17) |
| vipassanā | insight |
| vipāka | result |
| *vipekkhati | to look about (91.10) |
| vibhava | non-being, extermination |
| vimutta | liberated |
| vimutti | deliverance |
| vimokkha | liberation |
| virāga | (1) dispassion; (2) fading away (as impermanence) |
| viriya | energy |
| vivaṭṭa | world-expansion |
| vivāda | dispute |
| viveka | seclusion |
| visama | unrighteous |
| visuddhi | purification |
| vihiṃsā | cruelty |
| vīmaṃsā | investigation |
| *vuddhasīla | mature virtue (95.9) |
| *vekurañja | not of either kind (?) (93.14) |
| veda | (1) untranslated: ancient Indian scripture; (2) inspiration |
| vedanā | feeling |
| vedayita | what is felt, feeling |
| veramaṇī | abstinence |
| vessa | merchant (caste) |
| vossagga | relinquishment |
| vohāra | expression |
| *vyāpajjitar | one who undertakes (work) (124.32) |
| saṃyojana | fetter |
| saṃvaṭṭa | world-contraction |
| saṃvara | restraint |
| saṃvega | sense of urgency |
| saṃsāra | round of births |
| sakadāgāmin | once-returner |
| sakkāya | personality |
| sakkāyadiṭṭhi | personality view |
| sakkāra | honour |
| sagga | heaven |
| saṅkappa | intention |
| saṅkilesa | defilement |
| saṅkhata | conditioned |
| saṅkhāra | formation |
| saṅgaṇikā | society |
| saṅgha | untranslated: (1) the Buddhist monastic order; (2) the community of noble disciples |
| sacca | truth |
| *saññūḷha | concocted (56.30) |
| sati | mindfulness |
| satipaṭṭhāna | foundation of mindfulness |
| satta | being |
| sattapada | position of beings |
| saddhamma | (1) true Dhamma; (2) good quality |
| saddhā | faith |
| saddhānusārin | faith-follower |
| santa | peaceful |
| santi | peace |
| santosa | contentment |
| sandiṭṭhika | visible here and now |
| sappurisa | true man |
| sabba | all |
| sabbaññū | omniscient |
| sama | righteous |
| samaṇa | recluse |
| samatha | (1) serenity; (2) stilling (of formations); (3) settlement (of litigation) |
| *samanvāneti | to find (131.4) |
| samācāra | conduct, behaviour |
| samādhi | concentration |
| samāpatti | attainment (in meditation) |
| samudaya | origin, arising |
| sampajañña | full awareness |
| samphappalāpa | gossip |
| sambojjhaṅga | enlightenment factor |
| sambodhi | enlightenment |
| sammā | (1) fully, completely; (2) right(ly) |
| saraṇa | refuge |
| sallekha | effacement |
| saḷāyatana | sixfold base |
| sassata | eternal |
| sāṭheyya | fraud |
| sāmaggi | concord |
| sārambha | presumption |
| sāsana | Dispensation (of Buddha) |
| sikkhā | training |
| sikkhāpada | training precept |
| siloka | praise |
| sīla | (1) virtue; (2) habit; (3) rule |
| sīlabbata | rules and observances |
| sukha | pleasure, pleasant, bliss |
| sugata | sublime, Sublime One |
| sugati | good destination |
| suññatā | voidness |
| suta | (1) heard; (2) learning |
| sudda | worker (caste) |
| suddhāvāsa | Pure Abodes |
| subha | beauty, beautiful |
| *suvaca | easy to admonish (15.4) |
| *suvihata | fully stretched out (121.5) |
| *susamanniṭṭha | well investigated (pp. su + samannesati) (47.16) |
| sekha | disciple in higher training |
| senāsana | resting place |
| soka | sorrow |
| sotāpanna | stream-enterer |
| somanassa | joy |
| *hassaka | ridiculous (80.15; 99.10) |
| hita | welfare |
| hiri | shame |
| hetu | cause |