ādi

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Old Javanese

Etymology

From Sanskrit आदि, अधि (ādi, adhi).

Noun

ādi

  1. beginning, commencement
  2. first, principal, chief
  3. excellent, exquisite, fine, eminent

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦲꦢꦶ (adi, “fine, beautiful”)
    • → Malay: adi-
  • → Balinese: ᬅᬥᬶ (“main, principal”)
  • → Balinese: ᬆᬤᬶ (“first”)

Further reading

  • "ādi" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

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Alternative scripts

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit आदि (ādi).

Noun

ādi m

  1. beginnings, origin
  2. (list): and so on; from
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎, page 2; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      ते च खो अक्खरापि अकारादयो एकचत्तालीसं सुत्तन्तेसु सोपकारा होन्ति, तं यथा :-
      Te ca kho akkharāpi akārādayo ekacattālīsaṃ suttantesu sopakārā honti, taṃ yathā :-
      And indeed as to the letters , there are forty one employed in the discourses; starting with 'a', they are:
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎, page 2; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      तत्थ अक्खरेसु अकारादीसु ओदन्ता अत्थ सरा नाम होन्ति।
      Tattha akkharesu akārādīsu odantā aṭṭha sarā nāma honti.
      There amongst the letters are eight vowels, namely starting with 'a' and ending with 'o'

Usage notes

When abbreviating a list, one or two items and ādi are combined to form a bahuvrihi in the plural. A section of a list may be delimited by also giving the end of the list, commonly by a bahuvrihi compounded from anta. This bahuvrihi may also be used to qualify a singular noun, in which case it will itself be in the singular.

Declension

Declension table of "ādi" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)ādiādayo or ādī
Accusative (second)ādiṃādayo or ādī
Instrumental (third)ādināādīhi or ādībhi
Dative (fourth)ādissa or ādinoādīnaṃ
Ablative (fifth)ādismā or ādimhāādīhi or ādībhi
Genitive (sixth)ādissa or ādinoādīnaṃ
Locative (seventh)ādismiṃ or ādimhiādīsu
Vocative (calling)ādiādayo or ādī

As the final element in a bahuvrihi, the nominative, vocative and accusative plural neuter is ādīni.

Adjective

ādi

  1. initial, beginning

Adverb

ādi

  1. initially

Descendants

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “ādi”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

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