The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Dhovati
Dhovati [Sk. dh!vati, see dh!vati] to rinse, wash, cleanse, purify Vin ii.208, 210, 214; Sn p. 104
(bh!jan!ni); J i.8; v.297. -- dhovi J vi.366; DhA iii.207. ger. dhovitv! J i.266; iv.2; VvA 33 (patta'), 77
(id.); PvA 75, 144. inf. dhovitu' Vin ii.120; iv.261 pp. dhota (q. v.) & dhovita J i.266. -- See also dhopati
(*dhopeti).
Dhovana
Dhovana (nt.) [Sk. dh!vana; see also dhopana] washing Vin iv.262; S iv.316 (bha*.a˚); A i.132, 161, 277;
It 111 (p!d!na'); J ii.129; vi.365 (hattha˚); Miln 11; Vism 343; PvA 241 (hattha -- p!da˚); DhA ii.19
(p!da˚); fig. (ariya') A v.216.
-- 344 --
N. Na
Na1 [Sk. na (in cana) & n! (in n!n!, vi -- n!) Idg. pron. base *no, cp. Gr. nh /, nai/; Lat. n/, nae surely, also
encl. in ego -- ne & in question utruOne, nam; fuller form *eno, as in Sk. an! (adv.) anena, anay! (instr.
pron. 3rd); Gr. e)/nh "that day"; Lat. enim] expletive -- emphatic particle, often used in comparative --
indefinite sense: just so, like this, as if, as (see cana & cana') J v.339 (Com. cttha na -- k!ro upam!ne).
Also as na' (cp. cana> cana') Vin ii.81, 186 (katha' na'=katha' nu); J ii.416; v.302; vi.213 (Com. p. 216:
ettha eko na -- karo pucchanattho hoti); Th 1, 1204; Miln 177. Perhaps at Sn 148 (kattha -- ci na', v. l. BB
na; but Com. KhA 247= eta'). To this na belongs na3; see also nu & nanu.
Na
Na2 [Ved. na=Idg. *nP; Lat. ne in n' unquam etc., Goth. ni; Sk. na ca=Lat. neque=Goth. nih. Also Sk. n!=
Idg. *n/, cp. Lat. Goth. n/] neg!tive & adversative particle "not" (Nd2 326: pa&ikkhepa; KhA 170:
pa&isedhe) 1. often apostr. n': n' atthi, n' eta' etc.; or contracted: n!ha', n!pi etc., or with cuphonic
consonant y: nayida' (It 29, J iv.3), nayidha (It 36, 37), nayima' (It 15) etc. As double negation implying
emphatic affirmation: na kiñci na all, everything J i.295. -- 2. In disjunctive clauses: na . . . na neither --
nor, so -- or not so. In question: karoti na karoti ("or not") J ii.133. Cp. m! in same use. Often with
added pi (api) in second part: na -- n!pi neither -- nor ("not -- but also not") S ii.65; M i.246; Pv i.119. -- 3.
In syntactic context mostly emphasized by var. negative & adversative particles, viz. n!pi (see under 2); n'
eva indeed not, not for all that J iii.55; or not KhA 219; n' eva -- na neither -- nor D i.33, 35; M i.486; A
v.193; J i.207, 279; Vin ii.185; DhA i.328; ii.65; DA i.186, 188; n' eva -- na pana id. D i.24; na kho not
indeed J ii.134; na ca but not (=this rather than that) J i.153; na t!va=na kho Vv 3713; na nu (in quest.=
noune) is it not? PvA 74, 136; na no surely not Sn 224; na hi [cp. Gr. ou/xi/ not at all; nai/xi certainly]
certainly not Dh 5, 184; Sn 666; Kh vii.6; na hi j!tu id. Sn 152. -- See also nu, n(, no. -- 4, na is also used in
the function of the negative prefix a -- (an -- ) in cases where the word -- negation was isolated out of a
sentence negation or where a negated verb was substantified, e. g. (a) nacira (=acira) short, nappar(pa
abundant, napu'saka neuter, neka (=aneka) several; (b) natthi, natthika etc. (q. v.).
Na
Na3 [identical with na1] base of demonstr. pron. 3rd pers. (=ta˚), only in foll. cases: acc. sg. na' (mostly
enclitic), fuller form ena' him, her, that one etc. Sn 139, 201, 385, 418, 980, 1076; It 32; Dh 42, 230; J
i.152, 172, 222; iii.281; KhA 220; DhA i.181; iii.173; PvA 3, 68, 73. -- acc. pl. ne them It 110 (v. l. te); Sn
223 (=te manusse KhA 169); J ii.417; iii.204; v.458; DhA i.8, 13, 61, 101, 390; VvA 299. -- gen. dat. pl.
nesa' D i.175, 191; It 63; J i.153; DhA iv.41; VvA 37, 136.; PvA 54, 201, 207. See also cna; cp. nava2.
Nakula