neuter
ash
ashes
Bhasma(n) (neuter) [cf. Vedic bhasman (adjective); Sanskrit bhasman (noun), originally present participle of bhas to chew and thus n-stem. It has passed into the a-declention in Pāli, except in the locative bhasmani (S I 169). Etymologically and semantically bhasman is either "chewing" or "anything chewed (small)," thus meaning particle, dust, sand, etc.; and bhas is another form of psā (cf. Sanskrit psā morsel of food, psāta hungry = Pāli chāta). Indo-Germanic °bhsā and°bhsam, represented in Greek ψώχω to grind, ψάμμος and ψῶχος and; Latin sabulum sand. Dhātup 326 and Dhātum 452 explain bhas by bhasmīkaraṇa "reduce to ashes," a past participle of it is bhasita; it also occurs in Sanskrit locative bhasi] ashes S I 169 = Nidd II §576 (locative bhasmani); Vv 84 44 ; Ja III 426; Vism 469 (in comparison). -antāhuti (bhasmantāhuti) "whose sacrifice ends in ashes" D I 55 (so read for bhassant°, according to Sv I 166, and cf. Franke, Dīgha translation page 60); M I 515; S III 207; -ācchanna covered by ashes Dhp 71 (= chārikāya paṭichanna Dhp-a II 68); Ja VI 236 (. ... va pāvaka); -puṭa a sack for ashes Sv I 267 (as explanation for assa-puṭa of D. I 98; fanciful; see assa 1 ); -bhāva "ashy" state, state of being crumbled to dust Vv-a 348.
【中】 灰燼。~cchanna,【形】 被灰燼複蓋的。
(masc, masc, atta group) ash ashes