The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Khoma [cp. Vedic k+auma] adj. flaxen; nt. a linen cloth, linen garment, usually combd with kapp!sika Vin
i.58, 96, 281; A iv.394; v.234=249 (˚yuga); J vi.47, 500; Pv ii.117; DhA i.417. -- pilotik! a linen cloth Vin
i.296.
G. ˚Ga
˚Ga [fr. gam] adj., only as ending: going. See e. g. atiga, anuga, antalikkha˚, ura˚, p!ra˚, majjha˚, sam"pa˚,
hattha˚. It also appears as ˚gu, e. g. in addha˚, anta˚, pa&&ha˚, p!ra˚, veda˚. -- dugga (m. & nt.) a difficult
road Dh 327=Miln 379; Pv ii.78 (=duggamana -- &&h!na PvA 102); ii.925; J ii.385.
Gagana
Gagana (nt.) the sky (with reference to sidereal motions); usually of the moon: g˚ majjhe pu**acando viya J
i.149, 212; g˚ tale canda -- ma*.ala' J iii.365; cando g˚ majjhe &hito J v.137; cando gagane viya sobhati
Vism 58; g˚ tale canda' viya DhA i.372; g˚ tale pu**acanda "the full -- moon in the expanse of the
heavens" VvA 3; g˚ talamagga the (moon's) course in the sky PvA 188; etc. Of the sun: suriyo !k!se
antalikkhe gaganapathe gacchati Nd2 on Sn 1097. Unspecified: J i.57; Vism 176 (˚tal -- âbhimukha').
Gaggara
Gaggara [Vedic gargara throat, whirlpool. *g9er to sling down, to whirl, cp. Gr. ba/raqron, Lat. gurges,
gurgulio, Ohg. querechela "kehle"] 1. roaring, only in f. gaggar" a blacksmith's bellows: kamm!ra˚, in
simile M i.243; S i.106; Vism 287. -- 2. (nt.) cackling, cawing, in ha'sa˚ the sound of geese J v.96 (expl. by
ha'samadhurassara). Gaggar! as N. of a lake at Vism 208. -- See note on gala.
Gaggaraka
Gaggaraka [fr. gaggara] a whirlpool, eddy J v.405; according to Kern Toev. s. v. a sort of fish (Sk.
gargaraka, Pimelodus Gagora); as gaggalaka at Miln 197.
Gaggar!yati
Gaggar!yati [v. den. fr. prec.; cp. gurgulio: gurges, E. gargle & gurgle] to whirl, roar, bellow, of the waves
of the Gang! Miln 3. -- cp. ga)aga)!yati.
Gaccha
Gaccha [not=Sk. kaccha, grass -- land, as Morris, J.P.T.S. 1893, 16. The passage J iii.287 stands with
gaccha, v. l. kaccha for gaccha at A iv.74; g˚ for k˚ at Sn 20] a shrub, a bush, usually together with lat!,
creeper & rukkha, tree, e. g. Nd2 235, id; J i.73; Miln 268; Vism 182 (described on p. 183). With d!ya,
wood A iv.74. puppha˚ a flowering shrub J i.120; khuddaka˚ -- vana a wood of small shrubs J v.37. -- PvA
274; VvA 301 ( -- gumba, brushwood, underwood); DhA i.171 ( -- pothana -- &&h!na); iv.78 ( -- m(la).
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Gacchati
Gacchati [Vedic gacchati, a desiderative (future) formation from *g9em "I am intent upon going," i. e. I go,
with the foll. bases. -- (1) Future -- present *g9emskéti> *ga$cati>Sk. gacchati=Gr. ba/skw (to bainw). In
meaning cp. i, Sk. emi, Gr. ei)=mi "I shall go" & in form also Sk. p%cchati=Lat. porsco "I want to know,"
Vedic icchati "to desire." -- (2) Present *g9emi!o=Sk. gamati=Gr. bai/nw, Lat. venio, Goth. qiman, Ohg.
koman, E. come; and non -- present formations as Osk. kúmbened, Sk. gata=Lat. ventus; gantu=(ad)