The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

hand sound, hand music, a cert. kind of musical instrument D i.6; iii.183; DA i.84 (cp. Dial i.8), 231; J
v.390, 506; cp. BSk. p!*isvara MVastu ii.52. Also adj. one who plays this instrument J vi.276; cp. BSk.
p!*isvarika MVastu iii.113.
P!*ik!
P!*ik! (f.) [fr. p!*i; Sk. *p!*ik!] a sort of spoon Vin ii.151. Cp. puthu -- p!*ik! (˚p!*iy!?) Vin ii.106.
P!*in
P!*in (adj. -- n.) [fr. p!*a] having life, a living being S i.210, 226, Sn 220 (acc. pl. p!*ine, cp. Geiger, P.Gr.
§ 952), 587 (id.), 201, 575; PvA 287; DhA ii.19.
P!ta
P!ta ( -- ˚) [fr. pat] 1. fall DA i.95 (ukk!˚); PvA 45 (asani˚). The reading "anatthato p!tato rakkhito" at PvA
61 is faulty we should prefer to read apagato (ap!yato?) rakkhito. -- 2. throwing, a throw Sn 987
(muddha˚); PvA 57 (akkhi˚). See also pi*.a.
P!tana
P!tana (nt.) [fr. p!teti] bringing to fall, destroying, killing, only in gabbha˚ destroying the foetus, abortion
(q. v.) DhA i.47 and passim.
P!tar
P!tar (adv.) [Vedic pr!tar, der. fr. *pr0, *pr!, cp. Lat. prandium (fr. pr!m -- edi!om=p!tar -- !sa); Gr. prwi/
early; Ohg. fruo=Ger. früh] early in the morning, in foll. forms: (1) p!tar (before vowels), only in cpd. ˚!sa
morning meal, breakfast [cp. BSk. pr!tar -- a$ana Divy 631] D iii.94; Sn 387; J i.232; VvA 294, 308; SnA
374 (p!to asitabbo ti p!tar -- !so pi*.a -- p!tass' eta' n!ma'). -- katap!tar!sa (adj.) after breakfast J i.227;
vi.349 (˚bhetta); Vism 391. -- (2) p!to (abs.) D iii.94; DhA ii.60; PvA 54, 126, 128; p!to va right early J
i.226; vi.180. -- (3) p!ta' S i.183; ii.242; Th 2, 407. Note. Should pi*.a -- p!ta belong here, as
suggested by Bdhgh at SnA 374 (see above)? See detail under pi*.a.
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P!tavyat!
P!tavyat! (f.) [fr. p!t, see p!teti] downfall, bringing to fall, felling M i.305; A i.266; Vin iv.34 (˚by˚); VbhA
499.
P!t!peti
P!t!peti [Caus. II. of p!teti] to cause to fall, to cause an abortus Vin ii.108; DA i.134.
P!t!la
P!t!la [cp. Epic Sk. p!t!la an underground cave] proclivity, cliff, abyss S i.32, 127, 197; iv.206; Th 1, 1104
(see Brethren 418 for fuller expln); J iii.530 (here expld as a cliff in the ocean).
P!ti