adjective · nibbuta 1 · nibbuta 2
ceased to burn, gone out; become cool, cooled; ceased; free from care or passion; serene, calm; happy; esp; free from passion, in whom the fires of passion (the fuel for rebirth) have gone out; gone out (like a lamp or fire), ceased, dead (without the possibility of rebirth)
Nibbuta (adjective) [Nibbuta represents Sanskrit nirver̥ta (e.g. Avś I 48) as well as niver̥ta, both past participle of v̥, which in itself combines two meanings, as exhibited in cognate languages and in Sanskrit itself: (a) Indo-Germanic ṷer to cover, cover up (Latin aperio = °apa-verīro to cover up, Sanskrit varutram upper garment, "cover") and (b) *ṷel to resolve, roll, move (Latin volvo = revolve; Greek ἕλιξ, ἑλὐω; Sanskrit vāṇa reed = Latin ulva; Sanskrit ūrmi wave; Pāli valli creeper, valita wrinkled). *ṷer is represented in Pāli by e.g. vivarati to open, nivāreti to cover, obstruct, nīvaraṇa, nivāraṇa obstruction; °ṷel by āvuta, khandh-āvāra, parivāra, vyāvaṭa (busy with = moving about), samparivāreti. Thus we gain the two meanings combined and used promiscuously in the one word because of their semantic affinity: (a) *niver̥ta covered up, extinguished, quenched, and (b) *nirver̥ta without movement, with motion finished (cf. niṭṭhita), ceasing exhaustion, both represented by Pāli nibbuta. — In derivations we have besides the root form vr̥ (= Pāli bbu°) that with guṇa vr̥ (cf. Sanskrit vārayati, vrāyati) or vrā = Pāli *bbā° (with which also cf. paṭivāṇa = *prativāraṇa). The former is in nibbuti (ceasing extinction, with meaning partly influenced by nibbuṭṭhi = Sanskrit nirver̥ṣṭi pouring of water), the latter in instrumental nibbāti and nibkhāyati (to cease or to go out) and transative nibbāpeti (causative: to make cease, to stop or cool) and further in Nibbāna (neuter instrumental abstract) (the dying out)] (literal) extinguished (of fire), cooled, quenched (figurative) desireless (often with nicchāta and sītibhūta), appeased, pleased, happy. (a) (literal) aggi anāhāro n. M I 487; Snp 19 (ginī n. = magga-salila-sekena n. Pj II 28); Ja IV 391 (anibbute pāyāse); Miln 304 (aggikkhandha), 346 (mahāmeghena n°ṃ paṭhaviṃ); Thig-a 154 (anupādānā dīpaccī); Pj I 194 (padīpo n.). (b) (figurative) combined with sītibhūta (and nicchāta): Vin I 8; M I 341; A II 208 = D III 233 = Pp 56, 61; A IV 410; V 65; Snp 593, 707; Pv I 8 7 . — In phrase anupādāya nibbuta: S II 279; A I 162; IV 290 = Dhp 414 = Snp 638. — In other connections: attadaṇḍesu n. sādānesu anādāno S I 236 = Dhp 406 = Snp 630; aññāya nibbutā dhīrā S I 24; tadaṅga-n. S III 43; ejānugo anejassa nibbutassa anibbuto It 91; vītataṇho n. Snp 1041; tiṇṇa-sokapariddavo n. Dhp 196; rāgaggimhi n. and n. mātā, pitā, nārī Ja I 60; n. veyyākaraṇena Miln 347; upādānānaṃ abhāvena ... kilesanibbānena n. Dhp-a IV 194. — See also abhinibbuta and parinibbuta.
(pp, pp of nibbāti) (of mental defilement) quenched; emancipated; cooled got cold, become passionless, was extinguished [lit.] blown away Construction: nī + √vā > vu > bu + ta
(pp, pp of nibbāti) (of fire) extinguished; quenched; put out; gone cold got cold, was extinguished [lit.] blown away Construction: nī + √vā > vu > bu + ta
(pp, pp of nibbāti) (of an arahant) died one's last death; attained final emancipation [lit.] blown away Construction: nī + √vā > vu > bu + ta