The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Assir" (adj.) [a + sir"] without splendour, having lost its brightness, in assir" viya kh!yati Nett 62 = Ud 79
(which latter has sassar! iva, cp. C. on passage l. c.).
Assu
Assu1 (nt.) [Vedic a$ru, Av. asr(, Lith aszarà, with etym. not definitely clear: see Walde, Lat. Wtb. under
lacrima] a tear Vin i.87 (ass(ni pavatteti to shed tears); S ii.282 (id.); Dh 74; Th 2, 496 (cp. ThA 289); KhA
65; DhA i.12 (˚pu**a -- netta with eyes full of tears); ii.98; PvA 125. -- dh!r! a shower of tears DhA iv.15
(pavatteti to shed). -- mukha (adj.) with tearful face [cp. BSk. a$rumukha e. g. Jtm 3116] D i.115, 141; Dh
67; Pug 56; DA i.284; PvA 39. -- mocana shedding of tears PvA 18.
Assu
Assu2 is 3rd pl. pot. of atthi.
Assu
Assu3 (indecl.) [Sk. sma] expletive part. also used in emphatic sense of "surely, yes, indeed" Sn 231
(according to Fausböll, but preferably with P. T. S. ed. as tayas su for tay! assu, cp. KhA 188); Vv 324
(assa v. l. SS) = VvA 135 (ass( ti nip!ta -- matta'). Perhaps we ought to take this assu3 together with the
foll. assu4 as a modification of ssu (see su2). Cp. !su.
Assu
Assu4 part. for Sk. svid (and sma?) see under su2. Ac- cording to this view Fausbölls reading ken! assu at
Sn 1032 is to be emended to kena ssu.
Assuka
Assuka (nt.) [assu1 + ka] a tear Vin ii.289; Sn 691; Pv iv.53.
Assutavant
Assutavant (adj.) [a + sutavant] one who has not heard, ignorant M i.1, 8, 135; Dhs 1003, 1217, cp. Dhs
trsl. 258.
Aha
Aha1 (indecl.) [cp. Sk. aha & P. aho; Germ. aha; Lat. ehem etc.] exclamation of surprise, consternation,
pain etc. "ch! alas! woe!". Perhaps to be seen in cpd. ˚k!m! miserable pleasures lit. "woe to these
pleasures!") gloss at ThA 292 for T. k!mak!m! of Th 2, 506 (expld. by C. as "ah! ti l!maka -- pariy!yo").
See also ahaha.
Aha
Aha2 ( -- ˚) & Aho (˚ -- ) (nt.) [Vedic ahan & ahas] a day. (1) ˚aha only in foll. cpds. & cases: instr.
ekâhena in one day J vi. 366; loc. tadahe on that (same) day PvA 46; acc. katipâha' (for) some or several
days J i.152 etc. (kattpâha); satt!ha' seven days, a week Vin i.1; D ii. 14; J iv.2, and freq.; anvaha' daily
D!vs iv.8. -- The initial a of aha' (acc.) is elided after i, which often appears lengthened: kati !ha' how
many days? S i.7; ekâha -- dv" !ha' one or two days J i.292; dv"ha -- t" !han two or three days J ii.103;