"kāma" meaning in Pali

See kāma in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Inherited from Sanskrit काम (kāma). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|pi|sa|काम|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Sanskrit काम (kāma), {{inh+|pi|sa|काम}} Inherited from Sanskrit काम (kāma)
  1. See -kāma (“desirous of...”)
    Sense id: en-kāma-pi-adj-T4wUKZQP Categories (other): Pali entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pali entries with incorrect language header: 82 18

Noun

Etymology: Inherited from Sanskrit काम (kāma). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|pi|sa|काम|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Sanskrit काम (kāma), {{inh+|pi|sa|काम}} Inherited from Sanskrit काम (kāma) Head templates: {{pi-noun|m}} kāma m Inflection templates: {{pi-decl-noun|g=m}} Forms: masculine [table-tags], kāmo [nominative, singular], kāmā [nominative, plural], kāmaṃ [accusative, singular], kāme [accusative, plural], kāmena [instrumental, singular], kāmehi [instrumental, plural], kāmebhi [instrumental, plural], kāmassa [dative, singular], kāmāya [dative, singular], kāmatthaṃ [dative, singular], kāmānaṃ [dative, plural], kāmasmā [ablative, singular], kāmamhā [ablative, singular], kāmā [ablative, singular], kāmehi [ablative, plural], kāmebhi [ablative, plural], kāmassa [genitive, singular], kāmānaṃ [genitive, plural], kāmasmiṃ [locative, singular], kāmamhi [locative, singular], kāme [locative, singular], kāmesu [locative, plural], kāma [singular, vocative], kāmā [plural, vocative]
  1. pleasure, lust, love, passion, enjoyment Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-kāma-pi-noun-S~EE4Il5

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for kāma meaning in Pali (5.3kB)

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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 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). 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.