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kūṭeyyāni

kūṭeyya

nt nom pl of kūṭeyya (noun); nt acc pl of kūṭeyya (noun); nt voc pl of kūṭeyya (noun)

  1. crookedness; fraud; deceit; trickery; lit. crooked state

Etymology. √kuṭ > kūṭ + *a + eyya; from √kuṭ 'be crooked, be bent'; Sanskrit kūṭya, kauṭilya [kuṭ]

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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