Some scholars connect the verbs ujjhāyati, khīyati, and vipāceti to negative emotional states (especially irritation and anger). Others connect the verbs to judgmental appraisal and the spreading of ill-fame. I show how both interpretations are valid.

A denominative verb is one that is usually formed from a synchronically occuring noun (or an adjective) to which verbal endings are appended. Denominative verbs, in a way, can be seen as nouns (or adjectives) which have metamorphosed into verbs formally and semantically.

Etymological, lexical, commentarial, and philological notes on 162 Pāḷi verbs.

If you notice anything erroneous or missing, your feedback is welcome here.

The same Indo-European metaphor for abusing paternal property is traceable in the Middle Iranian and Indic tradition, ranging from Vedic to (Buddhist) Sanskrit dāyāda-.

This article focuses on the philology of the Sanskrit term dāyāda and its relation to the Buddhist story of Ajātaśatru. Dāyāda is a Sanskrit and Pāli term usually translated as ‘heir’. For example, “kamma-dāyādo” is to be the heir of one’s actions.

This article argues there is a second interpretation of the term as eating (√ad) what is given (dāya), i.e., one eats the fruits of one’s karma. The study here focuses on how Indo-European metaphors inform this translation and understanding of the term, using various related languages, especially West Tocharian. 

As far as the Pāli literature is concerned, the earliest extant lexicon we possess is the Abhidhānappadīpikā composed by Moggallāna Thera in the reign of King Parākramabāhu the Great in the twelfth century A.D. in Sri Lanka.

Note the PDF linked above is half-page sized to support printing as a booklet.

… most of the [plants’] names and their etymologies prove to be quite meaningful

The Prince began working on the book in B.E. 2466 (1923) and he collected the glosses studiously

A bilingual English/Thai Dictionary of Pāli with Sanskrit equivalents listed for each entry.

It has been incorporated into apps for iOS and Android as well as into web apps such as the Digital Pāli Reader and SuttaCentral, whose heavily modified “new” version can be downloaded as a raw json file here. The dictionary has even been translated into Chinese.

Although the early dictionaries, like Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary and A Critical Pāli Dictionary, did utilize the Jātaka word definitions considerably, up and till now no one has translated the word commentaries into English in full. It is this gap that the present work seeks to fill with a new translation of the 500 verses of the first three books, together with their explanations, which takes us up to Jātaka 300.

… dictionary with examples from the Theravāda Pāli Canon

… although the CPD remains a fragment, this fragment is rounded off in a way by the fact that it does not end with an arbitrary cut. For the end within the letter “kā” coincides with that of the derivatives of the verb karoti

The ambitious project to document all the words of the Pāli language.

You can hear the pronunciation of some of these names over at ReadingFaithfully.org.

… from the frequency-sorted word list from Schmidt’s dictionary and the definitions & parts of speech from Sutta Central’s copy of the Concise Pali-English Dictionary.

The PED is slowly being supplanted by a new Dictionary of Pāli, whose fourth and final volume is currently under preparation by Martin Straube.

… the relevant Pāli data about [ten technical] terms occurring in the Vinaya, [its commentaries] and in secondary literature

Contents:

1. saṃgha-kamma, “procedure”
2. adhikaraṇa, “legal question, formal dispute, case”
3. mānatta, parivāsa, abbhāna, the Saṃghādisesa penalties and “re-admission” procedure
4. The disciplinary procedures of tajjanī ya-°, nissaya-°, pabbājanī ya-°, paṭisāraṇī ya-°, and threefold ukkhepanī ya-kamma (n.)
5. Nissāraṇā (f.)/nissāraṇī ya (n.), osāraṇā (f.)/ osāraṇī ya (n.), “sending away, dismissal” and “introduction, invitation to come (back), restoration”
6. Nāsanā (n.f.), “expulsion”
7. Daṇḍa-kamma (n.), “punishment”
8. Pakāsanī ya-kamma (n.), “procedure of proclamation”
9. Patta-nikkujjanā/°-ukkujjanā (n. f.), “turning down/up the alms-bowls”
10. Brahma-daṇḍa (m.), “maximal punishment”