The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Khañjati
Khañjati [fr. khañja] to be lame Pv iii.228.
Khañjana
Khañjana (nt.) hobbling, walking lame PvA 185.
Kha&akha&a
Kha&akha&a (kh!& -- kata, making kh!&; cp. kakk!reti) the noise of hawking or clearing one's throat: -- sadda
Vin i.188; DhA iii.330; cp. khakkha&a (v. l. kha&kha&a) Divy 518=utk!$ana$abda.
Kha&opik!
Kha&opik! (f.) [perhaps connected with Sk kha&v!? uncertain] couch, bedstead M i.450, 451 (vv. ll. ka˚,
khajj˚).
Kha*a
Kha*a1 (m.) [Derivation unknown. It has been suggested that kha*a and the Sk. ksha*a are derived from
"ksha*a (seeing) by process of contraction. This seems very forced; and both words are, in all probability,
other than the word from which this hypothesis would derive them.] 1. (1) a (short), moment, wink of time;
in phrase kha*en' eva "in no time" PvA 38.117; Sdhp 584 (etc.). Sdhp 584; kha*o ve m! upaccag! "let not
the slightest time be wasted" Sn 333=Dh 315; cf. Th. ii.5 (cp. kha*ât"ta); n' atthi so kh˚ v! layo v! muhutto
v! ya' (nad") !ramati "there is no moment, no inkling, no particle of time that the river stops flowing" A
iv.137 (as simile of eternal flow of happening, of unbroken continuity of change); Vism 238 (j"vita˚), 473;
(kha*a -- vasena upp!d' !di -- kha*a -- ttaya, viz. upp!da, &hiti, bhanga, cp. p. 431); J iv.128; a&&ha --
kkha*a -- vinimmutto kh˚ paramadullabho: one opportunity out of eight, very difficult to be obtained Sdhp
4, 16; cp. 45, 46. -- 2. moment as coincidence of two events: "at the same moment," esp. in phrase ta'
kha*a' yeva "all at once," simultaneously, with which syn. &h!naso J i.167, 253; iii.276, PvA 19; PvA 27,
35; tasmi' kha*e J ii.154; PvA 67; Sdhp 17. 3. the moment as something expected or appointed (cp.
kairo/s), therefore the right moment, or the proper time. So with ref. to birth, rebirth, fruit of action,
attainment of Arahantship, presence on earth of a Buddha, etc., in cpds.: cuti -- kkha*o Bdhd 106;
pa&isandhi˚ Ps ii.72 sq.; Bdhd 59, 77, 78; uppatti˚ Vbh 411 sq.; sot!pattimagga˚ Ps ii.3; phala˚ Ps i.26, Bdhd
80; nikanti˚ Ps ii.72 sq.; upac!ra˚ Bdhd 94; citta˚ id. 38, 95. -- kha*e kha*e from time to time Dh 239 (=
ok!se ok!se DhA iii.340, but cp. Comp. 161, n. 5), Buddhupp!da˚, Th ii.A, 12. akkha*a see sep. Also
akkha*avedhin. -- akkha*e at the wrong time, inopportune Pv iv.140 (=ak!le). On kh. laya, muhutta cp.
Points of Contr. 296, n. 5. -- ât"ta having missed the opportunity Sn 333=Dh 315 (=DhA iii.489); -- ññ(
knowing, realizing the opportunity Sn 325 (cp. SnA 333). -- paccuppanna arisen at the moment or
momentarily Vism 431 (one of the 3 kinds of paccuppanna: kh˚., santati˚, addh!˚). -- paritta small as a
moment Vism 238.
Kha*a
Kha*a2 [fr. kha*] digging J ii.296. Cp. atikha*a.
Kha*ati
Kha*ati [fr. khan or kha*; Dhtp 179: anad!ra*e] 1. to dig (? better "destroy"; cp. Kern Toev. s. v.), dig out.
uproot Dh 247, 337; Sn p. 101; J ii.295; iv.371, 373: Sdhp 394. Also khanati & cp. abhikkha*ati,
palikkha*ati. -- 2. [= Sk. k+anati] to destroy Vin ii.26 (att!na'); M i.132 (id.). -- pp. khata & kh!ta (cp.
palikkhata).