The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

271); DA i.256 (=khu'seti); DhA i.251. -- (b) fig. A iii.343; Sn 847 (cp. Nd1 208); Vism 18. -- pp. gha&&ita
Pug 30, 36; psychologically gha&&ayati=ruppati. B or S iii.86. -- Pass. gha&"yati (q.v.). -- Cp. !sajja and
uggh!&eti.
Gha*&!
Gha*&! (f.) a small bell (cp. kinkanik!) J iv.215; VvA 36, 37, 279 (khuddaka˚). As gha*&" at Vism 181.
Ghata
Ghata (nt.) [Vedic gh%ta, gh% to sprinkle, moisten] clari- fied butter VvA 326; Miln 41; Sdhp 201 ( --
bindu). With ref. to the sacrificial fire (fire as eating ghee, or being sprinkled w. ghee) ghat!sana; J i.472;
v.64, 446; Pv i.85 (ghatasitta).
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Ghana
Ghana1 [Vedic ghana, cp. Gr. eu)qhnh/s?] (a) (adj.) solid, compact, massive; dense, thick; in eka˚ of one
solid mass (of sela, rock) Vin i.185=Dh 81=Th 1, 643= Miln 386; A iii.378, cp. ghanasela -- pabbata DhA
i.74. -- gh. pa'su J i.264, pa&hav" (solid ground) J i.74; PvA 75; pal!sa (foliage) PvA 113; buddharasmiyo J
i.12; ˚ma'sa solid, pure flesh DhA i.80; ˚s!&aka (thick cloth) J i.292; ˚sañchanna (thickly covered) PvA
258; ˚suva**ako&&ima DhA iv.135; abbha˚ a thick cloud Sn 348 (cp. SnA 348). -- (b) (m.) the foetus at a
certain stage (the last before birth & the 4th in the enum. of the foll. stages: kalala, abbuda, pes", gh.) S
i.206; J iv.496; Miln 40; Vism 236. The latter meaning is semantically to be explained as "swelling" & to
be compared with Gr. bru/w to swell and e(/mbruon=embryo (the gravid uterus).
Ghana
Ghana2 [Vedic ghana to hanti (ghanti, cp. gh!tayati), *g9hen "strike," cp. Gr. qei/nw, fo/nos, Lat. of --
fendo, Ags. gud, Ohg. gundea] a club, a stick, a hammer; in ayo˚ an iron club VvA 20. Also coll. term for a
musical instrument played by striking, as cymbal, tambourine, etc. VvA 37.
Ghanika
Ghanika [to ghana1 in meaning of "cloud" (Sk.)] a class of devas (cloud -- gods?) Miln 191.
Ghamma
Ghamma [Vedic gharma=Gr. qermo/s, Lat. formus, Ohg. etc. warm; to *g9her "warm," cp. Sk. gh%*oti,
hara; Gr. qe/ros, etc.] heat; hot season, summer. Either in loc. ghamme J iv.172 (=gimha -- k!le); Pv iv.53
& ghammani ("in summer" or "by the heat") S i.143= J iii.360 (sampareta overcome by heat); Sn 353; J
iv.239; v.3. -- Or. in cpd. with ˚abhitatta (ghammâbhitatta, overpowered by heat) M i.74; D ii.266; A iii.187
sq.; Sn 1014 (cp. 353 ghammatatta); Miln 318; VvA 40; PvA 114.
Ghara
Ghara1 (nt.; pl. ˚! Dh 241, 302) [cp. gaha & geha] a house A ii.68; Sn 43 (gaha&&h! ghara' !vasant!), 337
(abl. ghar!), 889 (id. gharamh!); J i.290 (id. gharato); iv.2, 364, 492 (ayo˚); Pug 57; Miln 47. Combd with
vatthu PvA 3, 17. -- s(cighara a needle -- case VvA 251. -- !jira house -- yard Vism 144 (where Dhs A 116
in id. passage reads gharadv!ra). -- !v!sa the household life (as contrasted with the life of a mendicant) Vin
ii.180 (ghar!v!sattha'); A ii.208; M i.179, 240, 267, 344; Sn 406 (cp. S v.350); J i.61; PvA 61; -- kapo&a