masculine
a wandering religious mendicant
Paribbājaka [from pari + vraj] a wandering man, a wanderer, wandering religious mendicant, not necessarily Buddhist (cf. Muir, JRAS 1866, 321; Lassen, Index Alt II 114, 277, 468; Vinaya Texts I 41) Vin I 342; IV 285 (bhikkhuñ ca sāmaṇerañ ca ṭhapetvā yo koci paribbājaka-samāpanno); D I 157; III 1 f., 35 f., 53 f., 130 f.; M I 64, 84; S I 78; II 22, 119, 139; III 257 f.; IV 230, 251, 391 f.; A I 115, 157, 185, 215; II 29 f., 176; IV 35 f., 338, 378; V 48 f.; Snp 537, 553; Ja I 85; Ud 14, 65; Sv I 35; Pv-a 31. — feminine paribbājikā Vin IV 285; M I 305; S III 238 f.; Ud 13, 43 f.
【陽】 托缽遊行僧. ~jikā, 【陰】 女遊行僧.
(masc, masc, agent, from paribbajati) homeless spiritual seeker; wandering ascetic wandering religious mendicant [lit.] who goes around Construction: pari + √vaj > baj > bāj + *aka