saKila · adjective
1 sakhila , adj. (= Pali id. ; cf. sākhilya and 1 akhila ), soft, smooth , once of (a garment of) cloth: sakhilā khu-dayaṃ … karpāsānāṃ paṭapilotikasaṃghāṭī, mṛdukā-dayaṃ … (same words), masinā-d-ayaṃ …, sukhumā-dayaṃ …, tanukā-d-ayaṃ …, etc. , Mv iii.53.17 ; this proves that the usual interpretation, friendly , cannot be right; it is of course based on the assumption of derivation from sakhi, but this is proved wrong by the Mv passage; otherwise recorded in Pali and BHS only of speech, esp. the Buddhaʼs; in Pali regularly assoc. with saṇha = ślakṣṇa and mudu = mṛdu; sakhilo glossed muduvacano DN comm. i.287.3 ff. , and all comms. agree essentially on this, as well as on sākhalya, sākhalla (= sākhilya ), which is the opposite of pharusa(-vācā etc. ), e.g. Dhs. 1343 ; DN comm. iii.981.15—22 ; sākhallena Jāt. iv.57.5 , glossed maṭṭhavacanena (note that maṭṭha is also applied to fine cloth, -sāṭaka Vism. 284.13 ); the mg. therefore is smooth , and of speech suave, mild, gentle : Buddhasya sakhilā girā Mv i.314.12 ( vs ), repeated below; su-sakhila-ślakṣṇa-vākyo ii.395.5 ; sakhilā Mvy 495 , in list of epithets of Buddhaʼs speech, = Tib. chub pa (? acc. to Das accomplished, perfected ; Chin. seems to mean affecting the hearts of all creatures ); of other (pious) persons, sūrataḥ ( mss. su°) sakhilo mṛduḥ Mv ii.371.8 ( vs ); su-sakhila-vācā iii.280.19 ( vs , by em. ); saṃmodako sakhilo ślakṣṇavāco ( mss. °cā) iii.372.4 ( vs ). The etym. of the word is obscure; BHS akhila = paruṣa, harsh (of speech), suggests interpretation as sa-khila, but may of course be a case of popular etym. ; no meaning of khila is known which would seem to fit.
kindly in speech
Sakhila (adjective) [from sakhi] kindly in speech, congenial D I 116; Vin II 11; Ja I 202, 376; Miln 207; Pv IV 1 33 (= mudu Pv-a 230). Cf. sākhalya. -vācatā use of friendly speech Dhs 1343.
【形】 言語慈祥的。
(adj, adj, from sakha) (of speech) kind; friendly kindly in speech Construction: sakha + ila