"ahi" meaning in Pali

See ahi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Inherited from Vedic Sanskrit अहि (ahi). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|pi|sa-ved|अहि|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Vedic Sanskrit अहि (ahi), {{inh+|pi|sa-ved|अहि}} Inherited from Vedic Sanskrit अहि (ahi), {{inh|pi|ine-pro|*h₁ógʷʰis}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis Head templates: {{pi-noun|m}} ahi m Inflection templates: {{pi-decl-noun|ahi|i|m}} Forms: masculine [table-tags], ahi [nominative, singular], ahayo [nominative, plural], ahī [nominative, plural], ahiṃ [accusative, singular], ahayo [accusative, plural], ahī [accusative, plural], ahinā [instrumental, singular], ahīhi [instrumental, plural], ahībhi [instrumental, plural], ahissa [dative, singular], ahino [dative, singular], ahīnaṃ [dative, plural], ahismā [ablative, singular], ahimhā [ablative, singular], ahīhi [ablative, plural], ahībhi [ablative, plural], ahissa [genitive, singular], ahino [genitive, singular], ahīnaṃ [genitive, plural], ahismiṃ [locative, singular], ahimhi [locative, singular], ahīsu [locative, plural], ahi [singular, vocative], ahayo [plural, vocative], ahī [plural, vocative]
  1. snake, serpent, dragon Tags: masculine Synonyms (snake): sappa, uraga Derived forms: ahichattaka
    Sense id: en-ahi-pi-noun-v77lqKqW Categories (other): Snakes, Pages with 20 entries, Pages with entries, Pali entries with incorrect language header, Pali verb forms in Latin script Disambiguation of Pages with 20 entries: 6 6 5 0 2 7 29 9 11 0 2 9 2 2 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 4 4 0 2 5 38 7 8 0 2 6 2 7 4 2 6 Disambiguation of Pali entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pali verb forms in Latin script: 79 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|pi|verb form|sccat=1|tr=-}} ahi, {{pi-verb form}} ahi
  1. second-person singular imperative active of atthi (“to be”) Tags: active, form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: atthi (extra: to be)
    Sense id: en-ahi-pi-verb-o27H8AaM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Pali dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.