neuter
machine
a machine
Yanta (neuter) [Vedic yantra, a kind of agent noun formation from yam to hold by means of a string or bridle, etc. Indo-Germanic °em and °i°em, as in Latin emo to take and red-imio.] a means for holding, contrivance, artifice, instrument, machine, mechanism; figurative instrumentality (as perhaps in kamma° at Thag passages). — Referring to the machinery (outfit) of a ship (as oars, helm, etc.) Ja IV 163 (sabbayantūpapanna = piyārittā etc. commentary); Miln 379. To mechanism in general (mechanical force) Ja V 333 (°vegena = with the swiftness of machinery). To a sugar-mill Miln 166; usually as ucchu-yanta Ja I 25, 339 (°yante gaṇṭhikā), cf. ucchūnaṃ yanta Dhp-a IV 199. — tela-yanta (-cakka) (the wheel of) an oil mill Ja I 25; — dāru-yanta a wooden machine (i.e. a mechanical man with hands and feet moved by pulling of strings) Sv I 197; Vism 595 (quoted as simile); — kamma-yanta the machinery of kamma Thag 419 (i.e. its instrumentality, not, as translation "car"; cf. Ps.B. 217: "it breaks in pieces k.'s living car," evidently influenced by commentary explanation "attabhāva-yanta"), 574 (similarly: see discussed under yantita). Note: yantāni at Nidd II §529 (on Snp 48 saṅghaṭṭa-yantāni) is explained as "dhuvarāni." The spelling and meaning of the latter is not clear. It must refer to bracelets. Cf. Pj II 96 valayāni; -ākaḍḍhana pulling the machine Vism 258 = Vibh-a 241; -cakkha -yaṭṭhi the stick of the wheel of a (sugar°) mill Vibh-a 60; -nāḷi a mechanical tube Dhp-a III 215; -pāsāṇa an aerolite (?) Ja III 258 (read °pāsāṇo); -phalakāni the boards of a machine Vism 258; -yutta combined by machinery Ja VI 432; -sutta the string of a machine (or mill). Vism 258 (as °ka) = Vibh-a 241; -hatthi a mechanical (automatic) elephant Dhp-a I 192 (of King Caṇḍa-pajjota; cf. the horse of Troy).
【中】 機器。~nāḷi,【陰】 機械的管。~mutta,【形】 經過機器抛出或射擊的。~yutta,【形】 以機器連接的。
(nt, nt) machine; mechanism; contraption machine Construction: √yant + a