feminine · sāmaññatā 1.1 · sāmaññatā 2.1
congruity; respect for the religious mendicants
Sāmaññatā 1 = sāmañña 1 (identity, congruity etc.) Ja VI 371 (vaṇṇa°); Vism 234 (maraṇa°). Sāmaññatā 2 = sāmañña 2 D III 145, 169; Dhp 332; Dhp-a III 484; IV 33.
(fem, fem, abstr, from sāmañña) devotion to ascetics respect for the religious mendicants [lit.] devotion to ascetics state Construction: √sam > sām + aṇa + *ya + tā sāmañña + tā
(fem, fem, abstr) congruity Construction: saṃ + ā + √ñā + ta + ā sāmaññata + ā