masculine · mokkha 1.1 · mokkha 2.1
release
release; freedom; deliverance; the final release
Mokkha 1 [late Vedic and Epic Skanskrit mokṣa, from muc, see muñcati. Dhātup 539 mokkha = mocana; Dhātum 751 = moca] 1. (literal) release, freedom from, in bandhanā m. D I 73 = M I 276. 2. (figurative) release, deliverance, salvation Vibh 426 (jarā-maraṇa° from old age and death); Dhp-a I 4 (°magga + sagga-magga, the way to heaven and salvation), 89, 90 (°dhamma = salvation) Mhv 5, 61. 3. (literal) (active) letting loose, emission, uttering (of speech) Ja I 375. 4. it may (and probably ought to) be taken as adjective (= *mokṣya, gerund of causative of muc) at Snp 773 (añña°, either = 1, as "deliverance for others," or = 4, as "to be delivered by others." Buddhaghosa at Pj II 516 gives both explanations: aññe mocetuṃ (na) sakkonti, kāraṇa-vacanaṃ vā etaṃ: aññena mocetabbā (na) honti). Mokkha 2 (adjective) [from mukha 6; Vr̥ddhi form = *maukhya] the headmost, first, foremost, in series aggo seṭṭho m. uttamo A II 95, where the customary tradition reads pāmokkha (see under mahā and cf. Nidd II §502 A).
【陽】 釋放,自由,解脫,最後的釋放。~ka,【形】 釋放者。~magga。【陽】 導致解脫之道。
(masc, masc, from mokkhati) release; freedom release, freedom, deliverance, final release Construction: √mokkh + a
(adj, adj, from mukha) head-most; foremost; leading Construction: mukha > mokha + *ya