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pasādo
pasāda
masc nom sg of pasāda (noun)
- inspiration; faith; trust; confidence (in); lit. settling forward
- brightness; clarity; calmness; tranquillity (of); lit. settling forward
- sense faculty; sensitivity; lit. settling forward
- makeup; facial beauty products; lit. settling forward
Built from
- pa — prefix · forward, forth
Intensifying prefix implying motion or emergence forth (cognate with Latin pro-, Greek pro-, English forth). Here it signals clarity or trust stepping forward and establishing itself.
- sād — root · settle, sit
From √sad 'sit, settle, be placed' (cognate with Latin sedēre 'sit', English sit, Sanskrit sad). The root carries the image of settling or becoming calm; in pasāda the spatial sense of settling becomes the abstract sense of clarity settling in the mind or trust crystallizing.
- a — ending · masc sg nominative
Masculine singular nominative ending; marks this as the citation or subject form of the noun.
Analysis. pa- (forward, forth) + sād- (settle, sit): 'settling forth' or 'that which settles forward', referring to clarity arising or trust crystallizing in the mind.
Etymology. √sad 'sit, settle' (cognate with Latin sedēre, English sit) with prefix pa- 'forward, forth'; the concrete image of settling forward—as sediment clears water or confidence settles the mind—underlies all three senses: faith as settled trust, brightness as clarity settling in, sense-faculty as the faculty through which perception settles.