kApotaka · adjective (f. -ikā)
Kāpotaka (adjective) [from kapota] pigeon-coloured, grey, of a dull white, said of the bones of a skeleton D I 55; Dhp 149 (= Dhp-a III 112).
kāpotaka , m. , acc. to Tib. ( phug ron ) = Skt. kapota(ka), pigeon : LV 248.20 (prose) sārasikāpotaka-saṃdaṃśikotsṛṣṭasaṃprakṣālakaiḥ (of a certain type of ascetics, or their practices, in a list of such types). The ā is strange, and I am not sure that we should not divide sārasikāpotaka, the young of female cranes ; but Tib. is very clear. ( AMg. kāvoya, a type of ascetics, and kāvoyā, ‘taking food with great care, like pigeons,’ Ratnach. , seem not to be relevant here.) Foucaux : qui mangent, après lʼavoir lavé, ce qui, mordu par les grues et les pigeons, en a été refeté ; so Tib.
connected with a pigeon;; of the color of a pigeon, dull white, gray; (according to commentary) of the color of a pigeon’s foot, red (?)
【形】 淡白色的。kāpotikā,【陰】 一種（微紅色的）酒。
(adj, adj, from kapota) dove gray; off white of a dull white [lit.] pigeon coloured Construction: kapota > kāpota + *ka