rūpe

rūpa

nt acc pl of rūpa (noun); nt loc sg of rūpa (noun); masc acc pl of rūpa (adj); nt acc pl of rūpa (adj); …

matter; material thing; materiality; experience of material world; physical objects of consciousness; first of the five aggregates; lit. form
body; physical body; material bodily; lit. form
(object of the eye) form; material form; shape; sight; appearance
of character; having nature of; of type; of kind; having the quality of; appearing as; lit. having form of
as if; like someone; lit. having form of
(gram) form of a word
(gram) sound of a word; lit. form
(gram) stem of verb

Etymology. From Proto-Indo-European *reup- 'to break, tear', whence also Latin rupia 'mange, scab' and Old Norse rjúfa 'to break'. The sense evolved from 'broken/fragmentary' to 'form, shape' (that which is formed by breaking matter into discrete pieces) and thence to 'material appearance, body'. Sanskrit rūpa and Greek rhein 'to flow' (from the sense of matter's formlessness) are sometimes compared, but less certainly.

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

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