अभिधान

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

अभिधान n

1. Devanagari script form of abhidhāna (“appellation”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎, page 252; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     सब्बेसं तिण्णं पठममज्झिमुत्तमपुरिसानं एकाभिधाने परो पुरिसो गहेतब्बो। सो च पठति, ते च पठन्ति, त्वञ्च पठसि तुम्हे च पठथ, अहञ्च पठामि = मयं पठाम; सो पचति, ते च पचन्ति, त्वञ्च पचन्ति, तुम्हे च पठथ, अहञ्च पचआमि = मयं पचाम एवं सेसासु विभत्तीसु परो पुरिसो योजेतब्बो॥

     Sabbesaṃ tiṇṇaṃ paṭhamamajjhimuttamapurisānaṃ ekābhidhāne paro puriso gahetabbo. So ca paṭhati, te ca paṭhanti, tvañca paṭhasi, tumhe ca paṭhatha, ahañca paṭhāmi = mayaṃ paṭhāma; so pacati, te ca pacanti, tvañca pacasi, tumhe ca pacatha, ahañca pacāmi = mayaṃ pacāma. Evaṃ sesāsu vibhattīsu paro puriso yojetabbo.

     With all three, third, second, and first persons, in one expression, the last person is to be taken. He reads, they read, thou readest, you read, and I read = we read; he cooks, they cook, thou cookest, you cook , and I cook = we cook. The last person is to be applied thus for other endings.

Declension

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Noun

अभिधान • (abhi-dhāna) stem, n

1. telling, naming, speaking, speech, manifesting
2. a name, title, appellation, expression, word
3. a vocabulary, dictionary, lexicon
4. putting together, bringing in close connection

Declension

Descendants

• Assamese: অভিধান (obhidhan)
• Bengali: অভিধান (obhidhan)
• Hindi: अभिधान (abhidhān)
• Kannada: ಅಭಿದಾನ (abhidāna)
• Malayalam: അഭിധാനം (abhidhānaṁ)
• Marathi: अभिधान (abhidhān)
• Burmese: အဘိဓာန် (a.bhi.dhan)
• Odia: ଅଭିଧାନ (ôbhidhanô)
• Pali: abhidhāna
• Telugu: అభిధానము (abhidhānamu)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “अभिधान”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0063.