vA · particle · vā pana
or
( vā , see also va , in the mgs. of iva and eva; also in Skt. , see BR , pw ; not in Pali , but in AMg. ; in BHS used in prose and in metr. indifferent positions in vss ; ( 1 ) = iva, as, like : siṃho vā asaṃtrasto Mv i.4.6 (prose); (Lumbinivanaṃ …) manojñaṃ karotha ( mss. ) … devabhuvanaṃ vā 149.4 ; siṃho vā nadate vane 188.7 ; jvalito agniskandho vā 252.14 ; (abhiramantu, mss. °ta, °tā) … nandanagatā vā maruputrā iii.71.1 (prose); kṣubhitajalanidhir vā śrūyate eva śabdo LV 80.15 (in LV noted only in vss , but sometimes in metr. indiff. positions); gehaṃ praviṣṭa nṛpater amarālayaṃ vā 115.6 ; adhruva capalagāmi mārutaṃ vā 242.6 , like the wind ; sudurbalā (confirmed in Tib. ) bṛṃhaṇa kāṅkṣiṇo vā ( Tib. ḥdra , like ) 399.8 ; others, LV 79.13 ; 132.13 ; 241.6 ; ( 2 ) = eva (rather than vai with Senart i note 376 ), precisely, just : na ca vā (= na caiva, and not at all ) loke kiṃcit pāpaṃ karma karaṇīyaṃ Mv i.8.14 ; 28.1 ; 31.14 ; read with mss. , āvṛṃhato chavi-mānsa-rudhiraṃ vā i.13.2 ; yathā vedaṃ (= vā, or va, for eva, idaṃ) … 39.4 , exactly as (but in repetition 40.1 yathāpi); ettakakalpā vā 77.14 , of just so many kalpas in extent ; the bhūmis of Bodhisattvas can not be measured thus.)
or; either- or
Vā (indeclinable) [Vedic vā, Avesta vā, Greek ἤ, Latin °ve] particle of disjunction: "or"; always enclitic Khp VIII (itthiyā purisassa vā; mātari pitari vā pi). Usually repeated vā ... vā (is it) so ... or, either ... or, e.g. Snp 1024 {543} (Brahmā vā Indo vā pi); Dhp 1 (bhāsati vā karoti vā); Pv-a 74 (putto vā dhītā vā n'atthi?). — with negation in second place: whether — or not, or not, e.g. hoti vā no vā is there or is there not D I 61; taṃ patthehi vā mā vā Vv-a 226. — Combined with other emphatic particles: (na) vā pana not even Pv II 6 9 (manussena amanussena vā pana); vā pi or even Snp 382 (ye vā pi ca); Pv II 6 14 (isayo vā pi ye santā etc.); iti vā Nidd II §420; atha vā Dhp 83 (sukhena atha vā dukhena); uda ... vā Snp 232 (kāyena vācā uda cetasā vā). — In verse vā is sometimes shortened to va, e.g. devo va Brahmā vā Snp 1024: see va 4 . [BD]: in AN 5.26 vā = ere; Arch. = prior, earler, before.
(選擇關係連詞), 或，只能二選一的。
(idiom, idiom, ind + ind) or else
(ind, ind) or; either or or, either- or
(ind, ind) (gram) or; in some cases; not always; alternatively; optionally
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