"dvi" meaning in Pali

See dvi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Numeral

Etymology: Inherited from Sanskrit द्वि (dvi). Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|pi|sa|द्व|द्वि||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Sanskrit द्वि (dvi), {{inh+|pi|sa|द्व|द्वि}} Inherited from Sanskrit द्वि (dvi) Head templates: {{head|pi|numeral}} dvi Inflection templates: {{pi-decl-noun|ablp=dvīhi|ablp_mod=replace|accp=dve|accp2=duve|accp_mod=replace|datp=dvinnaṃ|datp_mod=replace|g=no|genp=dvinnaṃ|genp_mod=replace|insp=dvīhi|insp_mod=replace|nomp=dve|nomp2=duve|nomp_mod=replace|novoc=true|number=p}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], dve [nominative, plural], duve [nominative, plural], dve [accusative, plural], duve [accusative, plural], dvīhi [instrumental, plural], dvinnaṃ [dative, plural], dvīhi [ablative, plural], dvinnaṃ [genitive, plural], dvīsu [locative, plural]
  1. two

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Burmese",
      "lang_code": "my",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "dwi.",
      "word": "ဒွိ"
    },
    {
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        {
          "lang": "Thai",
          "lang_code": "th",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "too",
          "word": "โท"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old Khmer",
      "lang_code": "okz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "do"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Thai",
      "lang_code": "th",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tá-wí",
      "word": "ทวิ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "lang_code": "km",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tviʼ",
      "word": "ទ្វិ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "lang_code": "km",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tvei",
      "word": "ទ្វេ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Lao",
      "lang_code": "lo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tha wi",
      "word": "ທະວິ"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
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      },
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        "4": "द्वि",
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        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "द्व",
        "4": "द्वि"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Sanskrit द्वि (dvi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pi-decl-noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvīhi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvinnaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvīhi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvinnaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvīsu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pi",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "dvi",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "ablp": "dvīhi",
        "ablp_mod": "replace",
        "accp": "dve",
        "accp2": "duve",
        "accp_mod": "replace",
        "datp": "dvinnaṃ",
        "datp_mod": "replace",
        "g": "no",
        "genp": "dvinnaṃ",
        "genp_mod": "replace",
        "insp": "dvīhi",
        "insp_mod": "replace",
        "nomp": "dve",
        "nomp2": "duve",
        "nomp_mod": "replace",
        "novoc": "true",
        "number": "p"
      },
      "name": "pi-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Pali",
  "lang_code": "pi",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pali cardinal numbers",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pali entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
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            ],
            [
              82,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "english": "'Catukkuṇḍiko': He moves with four points of contact, having placed two knees and two elbows on the ground.",
          "ref": "c. 420 AD, Buddhaghosa, Pāthikavaɡɡaṭṭhakathā, page 4; republished Yanɡon, Myanmar: Ministry of Reliɡious Affairs, 2008:",
          "text": "Catukkuṇḍikoti catusaṅghaṭṭito dve jāṇūni dve ca kappare bhūmiyaṁ ṭhapetvā vicarati.",
          "translation": "'Catukkuṇḍiko': He moves with four points of contact, having placed two knees and two elbows on the ground.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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              48,
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            ],
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              57
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          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
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              56,
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            ],
            [
              63,
              66
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Of all the endings, active and middle, they are called, two by two, the third, second and first person endings.",
          "ref": "c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar] (overall work in Pali), page 251; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:",
          "roman": "Tāsaṃ sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ parassapadānaṃ attanopadānañca dve dve padāni paṭhamamajjhima-uttama purisasaññāni honti.",
          "text": "तासं सब्बासं विभत्तीनं परस्सपदानं अत्तनोपदानञ्च द्वे द्वे पदानि पठममज्झम-उत्तम पुरिससञ्ञानि होन्ति।",
          "translation": "Of all the endings, active and middle, they are called, two by two, the third, second and first person endings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "two"
      ],
      "id": "en-dvi-pi-num-P8TM~nRY",
      "links": [
        [
          "two",
          "two"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dvi"
}
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "lang_code": "my",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "dwi.",
      "word": "ဒွိ"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Thai",
          "lang_code": "th",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "too",
          "word": "โท"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old Khmer",
      "lang_code": "okz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "do"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Thai",
      "lang_code": "th",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tá-wí",
      "word": "ทวิ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "lang_code": "km",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tviʼ",
      "word": "ទ្វិ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "lang_code": "km",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tvei",
      "word": "ទ្វេ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Lao",
      "lang_code": "lo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tha wi",
      "word": "ທະວິ"
    }
  ],
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      },
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      },
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        "2": "sa",
        "3": "द्व",
        "4": "द्वि",
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        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
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      "name": "inh"
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        "2": "sa",
        "3": "द्व",
        "4": "द्वि"
      },
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      "name": "inh+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Sanskrit द्वि (dvi).",
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pi-decl-noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "duve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvīhi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvinnaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvīhi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvinnaṃ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dvīsu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "pi",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "dvi",
      "name": "head"
    }
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    {
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        "accp2": "duve",
        "accp_mod": "replace",
        "datp": "dvinnaṃ",
        "datp_mod": "replace",
        "g": "no",
        "genp": "dvinnaṃ",
        "genp_mod": "replace",
        "insp": "dvīhi",
        "insp_mod": "replace",
        "nomp": "dve",
        "nomp2": "duve",
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        "novoc": "true",
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  "lang": "Pali",
  "lang_code": "pi",
  "pos": "num",
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    {
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Pali cardinal numbers",
        "Pali entries with incorrect language header",
        "Pali lemmas",
        "Pali numerals",
        "Pali terms derived from Sanskrit",
        "Pali terms inherited from Sanskrit",
        "Pali terms with quotations"
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          "english": "'Catukkuṇḍiko': He moves with four points of contact, having placed two knees and two elbows on the ground.",
          "ref": "c. 420 AD, Buddhaghosa, Pāthikavaɡɡaṭṭhakathā, page 4; republished Yanɡon, Myanmar: Ministry of Reliɡious Affairs, 2008:",
          "text": "Catukkuṇḍikoti catusaṅghaṭṭito dve jāṇūni dve ca kappare bhūmiyaṁ ṭhapetvā vicarati.",
          "translation": "'Catukkuṇḍiko': He moves with four points of contact, having placed two knees and two elbows on the ground.",
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          "english": "Of all the endings, active and middle, they are called, two by two, the third, second and first person endings.",
          "ref": "c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar] (overall work in Pali), page 251; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:",
          "roman": "Tāsaṃ sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ parassapadānaṃ attanopadānañca dve dve padāni paṭhamamajjhima-uttama purisasaññāni honti.",
          "text": "तासं सब्बासं विभत्तीनं परस्सपदानं अत्तनोपदानञ्च द्वे द्वे पदानि पठममज्झम-उत्तम पुरिससञ्ञानि होन्ति।",
          "translation": "Of all the endings, active and middle, they are called, two by two, the third, second and first person endings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "two"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "two",
          "two"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dvi"
}

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