masculine · kumbha 1 · kumbha 2
pot
Kumbha [for etymology see kūpa and cf. Low German kump or kumme, a round pot] 1. a round jar, waterpot (= kulālabhājana earthenware Dhp-a I 317), frequent in similes, either as illustrating fragility or emptiness and fullness: A I 130, 131 = Pp 32; A V 337; S II 83; Miln 414. As uda° waterpot Dhp 121; Ja I 20; Pv I 12 9 . 2. one of the frontal globes of an elephant Vin II 195 (hatthissa); Vv-a 182 (°ālaṅkārā ornaments for these). -ūpama resembling a jar, of kāya Dhp 40 (= Dhp-a I 317); of various kinds of puggalā A II 104 = Pp 45; -kāra1 . a potter; enumerated with other occupations and trades at D I 51 = Miln 331. Vin IV 7. In similes, generally referring to his skill D I 78 = M II 18; Vism 142, 376; Snp 577; Dhp-a I 39 (°sālā). rāja° the {222} king's potter Ja I 121. 2. a bird ( Phasianus gallus ? Hardy) Vv-a 163. — Compounds: -antevāsin the potter's apprentice D I 78 = M II 18;-nivesana the dwelling of a potter Vin I 342, 344; S III 119;-pāka the potter's oven S II 83; A IV 102;-putta son of a potter (cf. D.B. I 100), a potter Vin III 41 f. ; -kārikā a large earthen vessel (used as a hut to live in, Sp 1215) Vin II 143, cf. Vinaya Texts III 156; -ṭṭhānakathā gossip at the well D I 8 = III 36 = A V 128 = S V 419, explained at Sv I 90 by udaka-ṭṭhānakathā, with variant udakatittha-kathā ti pi vuccati kumbha-dāsikathā vā; -thūṇa a sort of drum D I 6 (explained at Sv I 84: caturassara-ammaṇakatāḷaṃ kumbhasaddan ti pi eke); D III 183; Ja V 506 (pāṇissaraṃ + k.). — °ika one who plays that kind of drum Vin IV 285 = 302; - (t)thenaka of cora, a thief, "who steals by means of a pot" (i.e. lights his candle under a pot (?) Sp 1291 on Vin II 256, cf. Vinaya Texts III 325 "robber burglars") only in simile Vin II 256 = S II 264 = A IV 278; -dāsī a slave girl who brings the water from the well D I 168; Miln 331; Dhp-a I 401 (udakatitthato k° viya ānītā); -dūhana milking into the pitchers, giving a pail of milk (of gāvo, cows) Snp 309. Cf. kuṇḍi; -bhāramatta as much as a pot can hold Ja V 46; -matta of the size of a pot, in kumbhamattarahassaṅgā mahodarā yakkhā, explanation of kumbhaṇḍā Ja III 147.
a jar, pitcher; a water pot; an urn (for the bones of the dead)
【陽】 水壺。~kāra,【陽】 陶工。~kārasālā,【陰】 陶器場。~dāsī,【陰】 挑水的女奴。
(masc, masc) clay pot; water jar; pitcher water-pot
(masc, masc) frontal boss; temporal boss; protuberance on an elephant's head that become enlarged during musth water-pot [lit.] clay pot