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sāmaññe

sāmañña

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

  1. ascetic life; monasticism; monkhood; state of being a monastic; lit. ascetic state
  2. accord; concord; agreement
  3. (gram) similarity
  4. devotion to ascetics
  5. (gram) general
  6. general usage
  7. similarity; equality; conformity; the same state
  8. devoted to ascetics; respectful to monastics

Etymology. √sam > sām + aṇa + *ya; from √sam 'exert, strive'; Sanskrit śrāmaṇya [śram]

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

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