G,Gh: Pali to English Dictionary

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gaāṭeti

To join, to unite; to endeavour, to strive

gakāro

The letter G

gaganaṃ

The sky

gaggarī

A churn; a blacksmith’s bellows

gaṅgā

The river Ganges; the celestial river, the Milky Way

gaṅgeyyo

Belonging to the Ganges

gacchati

To go, to go to, to proceed; to depart

gacchāpeti

To cause to go, to send

gaccho

A shrub

gajatā

A herd of elephants

gajo

An elephant

gajjati

To roar; to thunder

gajjanaṃ

Roaring, thundering

gaṇakammaṃ

see gaṇo

gaṇako

An accountant, treasurer; an astrologer, one who calculates nativities

gaṇanaṃ

Counting, calcalation; number

gaṇanapatho

Range of calculation or counting

gaṇabhojanaṃ

see gaṇo

gaṇasajjhāyo

A repetition by a number of monks in unison, a chorus

gaṇāpeti

To cause to be counted

gaṇikā

A courtesan

gaṇito

Counted, reckoned

gaṇī

Having a following, having many disciples

gaṇeti

To count, to reckon; to reck, to value, to regard

gaṇo

A multitude, number, assemblage, troop, herd; a chapter of monks; the monkshood

gaṇṭhi

A joint; a knot; a tie, bond

gaṇḍako

A rhinoceros; a sort of fish

gaṇḍambo

Name of a tree

gaṇḍuppādo

A sort of worm

gaṇḍulo

Humpbacked

gaṇḍo

The cheek; an elephant’s temples; a boil

gaṇhanaṃ

Taking, receiving, catching

gaṇhāti

To take; to receive, to accept; to catch,to capture; to arrest, to seize; to buy; to acquire, to obtain, to get possession of; to adopt; to grasp with the mind, to perceive, to comprehend, to learn; to approve, to agree to, to mind, to regard

gaṇhāpeti

To cause to be taken

gataddhī

One whose journey is ended, who has reached his destination

gatasatto

Lifeless

gati

Going, journey, march; course; refuge, resting-place, abode; way of turning out, result, issue, consummation; mode of re-birth after death, state of existence, future state, destiny; re-birth, transmigration, existence; good state, safety, happiness; discretion, prudence, wisdom

gatimā

Having the power of motion

gato

Gone to, reached; walking, going; having come to, having attained; directed to, devoted to, occupied with; having entered, being in, being upon; departed, gone, disappeared

gattaṃ

The body; a limb

gadati

To speak

gadā

A club

gadito

Spoken, said

gado

Disease

gaddabhaṇḍo

The tree thespesia populneoides

gaddho

A vulture

gadrabho

An ass

gadhito

Clinging to, desiring

ganaṇā

Counting, calcalation; number

gantabbo

That ought to go

ganthati

To tie, to connect; to compose

gantheti

To tie, to connect; to compose

gantho

A bond, a tie; a literary composition, book

gandhakuṭī

Perfumed chamber. Any private chamber devoted to the use of the Buddha was called gandhakuṭī, but especially the room he always occupied at Sāvatthi.

gandhanaṃ

Injuring, destroying

gandhabbo

A gandharva or celestial musician

gandhamādano

Name of a mountain

gandhārā

name of a people

gandhāro

One of the notes of the Hindu gamut

gandhi

A substitute for gandho at the end of some compounds

gandhiko

A perfume seller

gandho

Smell, odour; perfume, fragrance; fragrant substances, perfumes; a mere whiff or scent of thing, i.e. a very little of it

gabbito

Proud

gabbo

Pride

gabbharaṃ

A cavern

gabbhaseyyā

The womb

gabbhāvakkanti

Entrance of the embryo into the womb, commencement of pregnancy

gabbhāsayo

The womb

gabbhinī

Pregnant, a pregnant woman

gabbhuppatti

Conception

gabbho

The womb; interior; an embryo, a foetus; a sprout; an inner room, a closet, a private sitting room, a bedroom; the calyx of a flower

gabhīro

Deep

gabhīro

Deep, unfathomable; profound, abstruse; full of meaning or import, important, weighty

gamanaṃ

Going; journey, march; departure; walk, life

gamanīyo

That ought to go; transient; accessible

gamā

see gacchati

gamāpeti

To cause to go, to send

gami

see gacchati

gamiko

Going, travelling

gamitabbo

That ought to go

gamito

Gone

gameti

To cause to go, to send

gamo

Going

gamo

Going, journey, march

gambhīratā

Depth

gambhīrato

In depth

gambhīro

Deep, unfathomable; profound, abstruse; full of meaning or import, important, weighty

gammo

Accessible, attainable

gammo

Belonging to villages, rustic, pagan

gayā

Name of a river

gayāsīsaṃ

Name of a mountain near Gayā

gayho

That can be taken, seized, grasped

garalaṃ

The venom of a snake

garahaṇaṃ

Blame, contempt

garahati

To blame, to disparage, to despise

garahā

Blame, reproof, contempt

garahī

Censuring, despising

gariyo

Very heavy

garu

Heavy; large; weighty, important; venerable

garu

A parent; a teacher, a religious preceptor

garu

A bird’s wing

garuko

Heavy; severe; serious, grievous; weighty, important

garugabbhatā

Pregnancy

garuḷo

A garuḍa bird

galati

To flow away; to fall; to vanish; to eat

galo

The throat

gaḷocī

The shrub cocculus cordifolius

gavakkho

A round window, air-hole, bullseye

gavajo

A species of ox

gavampati

One who owns or herds cattle

gavayo

A species of ox

gavassakaṃ

Cows and horses

gaveḷakaṃ

Cows and sheep

gavesako

Seeking

gavesati

To seek

gavesanā

Search

gavesī

Seeking

gaveseti

To seek

gavyo

Bovine

gahaṃ

and (gaho)A house

gahaṭṭho

One who lives in a house-holder, a layman as opposed to a monk

gahaṇaṃ

Taking, receiving, holding, grasping, seizing; acquiring, learning, mastering, comprehension; clinging to the world, attachment, desire; an eclipse

gahaṇī

The belly; the internal fire promoting digestion

gahanaṃ

see gahano

gahano

Impervious, tangled, impenetrable; Neut. gahanaṃ, a jungle, forest, thicket

gahapati

A householder, the head of a household, master of a house

gahapatiṃahāsālo

A wealthy householder

gahapatiko

A householder

gahitako

Accepted

gahito

and (gahīto)Taken, received; held, kept; grasped, seized; caught, captured; occupied, taken possession of

gaheti

To wade, to dive, to enter

gaheti

To cause to take; to include, to embrace, to hold, to contain; to take, to seize; to obtain, to receive, to acquire, to buy;to inform, to teach, to undergo

gaho

Taking, holding

gaho

Taking, receiving, seizing; a planet; a yakkha; a shark; a crocodile

gāthā

A verse or stanza

gādhati

To stand fast; to have a firm footing

gānaṃ

A song

gāmako

A villager

gāmaṇī

Chief

gāmaṇīyo

An elephant or horse trainer

gāmatā

A collection of villages

gāmadhammo

Sexual intercourse, fornication, vile conduct

gāmantaraṃ

The interior of the village, to go as far as the village

gāmanto

Border or outskirts of a village

gāmiko

Travelling

gāmiko

A villager, or perhaps a village headman

gāmī

Going; leading to; attaining

gāmūpacāro

Outskirts or entrance of a village

gāmeti

To cause to go, to send

gāmo

A village; a collection, a multitude

gāyako

A singer, chorister

gāyati

To sing

gāyattī

Name of a metre

gāyanaṃ

Singing

gārayho

Contemptible, blamable, low, base, absurd

gāravatā

Respect

gāravo

Respect, reverence; weight, authority, importance

gālavo

The tree symplokos racemosa

gāḷho

Close, fast, tight

gāvī

A cow

gāvutaṃ

A measure of length=the fourth part of a yojana, a league

gāveyyo

Belonging to cattle

gāhako

Taking, receiving, holding

gāhati

To wade, to dive, to enter

gāhapacco

The sacred fire kept up by a house-holder

gāhapanaṃ

Causing to take

gāhāpako

Causing to take, distributing

gāhāpeti

To cause to be taken; to deliver to

gāhī

Taking, receiving, seizing, catching

gāheti

To cause to take; to include, to embrace, to hold, to contain; to take, to seize; to obtain, to receive, to acquire, to buy;to inform, to teach, to undergo

gāho

Taking, holding, seizing

gāho

Taking, acceptance; capture, seizure; holding; a seizure or eclipse of a planet; one that seizes, a yakkha, a crocodile; idea, inclination; attachment, desire

giṅgamakaṃ

A sort of ornament

gijjhati

To be greedy

gijjho

A vulture

giñjakā

A tile, a brick

giddhī

Greedy

giddho

Greedy

gini

Fire

gimhānaṃ

The hot season

gimho

The hot season, summer

girā

Voice, utterance, speech

giri

A mountain

girikaṇṇī

The plant clitoria ternate

girimallikā

The plant wrightia antidysenterica

girimekhalo

Name of Māra’s elephant

gilati

To devour, to swallow

gilānako

Ill

gilāno

Sick, ill

gihī

A householder; a layman as opposed to a monks

gītaṃ

Singing, a song, or hymn

gītikā

A song

gīvaṭṭhi

The collar-bone

gīvā

The neck, the throat; debt

gīveyyaṃ

A neck ornament, necklace

guggulu

Bdellium, a fragrant gum

guñjā

The shrub abrus precatorious; the smallest jeweller’s weight, equal to a berry of the ganja shrub

guṇavā

Excellent, virtuous

guṇiṭṭho

Better, and best. Comparative and superlative of guṇavā

guṇito

Multiplied

guṇiyo

Better, and best. Comparative and superlative of guṇavā

guṇo

A string; a bow-string; a time; a quality, property, characteristic; good quality, merit, efficacy, virtue; excellence, piety

guṇṭheti

To ensnare; to cover

gutti

Keeping, guarding

gutto

Preserved, protected; guarded, hidden

gudaṃ

The anus

gundā

The grass cyperus pertenuis, or its root

gumbako

Jungle

gumbo

A bush, a thicket, brushwood, jungle; a multitude, quantity; an array of troops

guyhaṃ

A secret; pudendum

guyhako

A class of demigods, also called devayoni, who are the attendants of Kuvera

guru

Heavy

guruvāro

Thursday

gulā

A pock, a pimple

guḷako

A ball

guḷaphalo

The tree careya arborea

guḷikīḷā

Game of ball

guḷo

Molasses, sugar; a ball, a globe; a ball or mouthful of food

guhā

A cave; the heart

guhāsayo

Whose seat is the heart. Said of citta, “the thoughts”

gūthaṃ

and (gūtho)Excrement

gūḷho

Secret, concealed

gūheti

To conceal

geṇḍuko

A ball to play with

gedho

Greed, desire

geyyaṃ

Mixed prose and verse

gerikaṃ

Red chalk

gelaññaṃ

Sickness, illness

gehaṃ

and (geho)A house

gehāsito

Lay, profane

go

A bull, a bullock, an ox; a cow, the earth; speech

gokaṇṭako

The hoof of an ox; the plant asteracantha longifolia

gokaṇṇo

A large species of deer, called elk in Ceylon; a span

gokulaṃ

A cattle-shed, a stable for cows

gokhīraṃ

Cow’smilk

goghātako

A cow-killer

gocariyo

Brown, reddish

gocaro

Pasture; food, prey; abode, resort; sphere, range, province; an object of sense, as form, sound, gocara is that whereby anything is limited, wherein it abides, lives, moves, or expatiates, or upon which it operates, its sphere, domain, range, function, object, attributes

gocchako

A bunch or cluster, a cluster of blossoms

goṭaviyo

Part of a ship

goṭṭhaṃ

A cattle-shed, cow-stable

goṇo

A bullock, an ox

gotamo

Descended from Gotama, Gautama or Gotamid or belonging to

gottaṃ

Family, lineage; family name

gotrabhū

One who is in a fit state to receive sanctification; a monk. I am indebted to Subhūti for several extracts explanatory of this term; in its first sense it means, “one whose mind is in that state of strong illumination which immediately brings about the attainment of sotāpattimagga”.

godhanaṃ

Property in cattle

godhā

An iguana, a very large sort of lizard

godhūmo

Wheat

gonako

A woollen coverlet with a very long fleece

gonaṇgulo

The black-faced monkey

gonaso

A kind of large snake

gopako

A cowherd

gopako

One who guards or takes care of

gopakhumo

Having eyelashes like a heifer

gopati

A bull

gopati

gopayati(1), gopeti(2), and gopāyati(3)To guard, to keep, to protect

gopānasī

The A shaped rafters of the roof of a hut

gopiko

An owner of cattle

gopuraṃ

A gate, a town gate; the towers or battlements over the gates of a fortified town, a watch-tower

gopuraṭṭho

Standing on the battlements

gopo

A cowherd, a herdsman

gopphako

The ankle

goppho

The ankle

gomayo

and (gomayaṃ)Cowdung

gomā

A cattle owner

gomiko

A cattle owner

goyūthaṃ

A herd of cattle

gorakkhā

Cow-keeping

gorakkho

A cowherd

goraso

Produce of the cow. Five are enumerated, khīraṃ, dadhi, ghataṃ, takkaṃ, navanītaṃ, milk, curds, ghee, buttermilk, butter

goro

White

goliso

Name of a plant

golomī

Name of several plants

goḷako

A ball or lump

goḷiko

Prepared with molasses

goḷo

A ball

govindo

A cattle owner, a head herdsman

gosaṇkhyo

A cowherd

gosāmiko

A cattle owner

gosālā

A cow-stable

gosīsaṃ

A kind of sandal wood


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ghaṃsati

To rub, to grind

ghacco

To be destroyed

ghaññaṃ

Destruction

ghaṭako

The capital of a column

ghaṭati

To endeavour, to strive, to exert oneself; to join, to adapt

ghaṭanaṃ

Junction, putting together

ghaṭā

Multitude, many; junction

ghaṭikā

The sixtieth part of a day and night, twenty-four minutes

ghaṭī

A jar

ghaṭīyantaṃ

The rope and bucket of a well

ghaṭo

A jar, a bowl

ghaṭṭanaṃ

Touching, knocking, rubbing, shaking

ghaṭṭeti

To touch; to shake; to speak spitefully to, to annoy; to join

ghaṇṭā

A bell

ghaṇṭiko

A ballad singer

ghataṃ

Ghee, or clarified butter

ghanacchāyo

Deep-shaded, thickly wooded

ghanasāro

Camphor

ghano

Firm, dense, solid, uninterrupted

ghanopalaṃ

Hail

ghammati

To go

ghammo

Heat; the hot season; sweat

gharaṃ

and (gharo)A house

gharakaṃ

A house

gharagolikā

A house lizard

gharaṇī

A wife

gharāvāso

Loving in a house or at home, life in the world, the householder’s or layman’s life as opposed to the life of an ascetic

ghasati

To eat

ghasmaro

Gluttonous

ghāṭāpeti

To cause to be united

ghātako

Killing, destroying, murdering, sacking

ghātanaṃ

Slaughter

ghātano

Destroying

ghātāpeti

To cause to be slain

ghātiko

Mixed with clarified butter

ghātito

Slain

ghātī

Killing

ghātuko

Mischievous, destructive

ghāteti

To kill, to cause to kill

ghāto

Slaughter, destruction

ghānaṃ

The nose, the organ of smell

ghāyati

To smell

ghāyanīyo

Odorous

ghāso

Eating, pasturing; food, fodder; meadow grass

ghuṭṭho

Shouted, proclaimed

gheppati

To take

ghoṭako

A sort of horse

ghoro

Dreadful, terrible

ghosanā

Sounding, proclaiming

ghosano

Sounding

ghosavā

Sounding, sonant

ghosāpeti

To shout, to proclaim

ghoseti

To shout, to proclaim

ghoso

Sound, noise; rumour; voice; a village of herdsmen

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INDEX


A     Ā       I, Ī     U, Ū     E   O    K, Kh    G,Gh      C       Ch      J     Jh     Ñ

Ṭ, Ṭh    Ḍ,Ṇ     T      Th     D    Dh    N     P    Ph      B    Bh    M    Y    R     L

V       S     H

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