ñare

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Meaning:	“hell”; “sin”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	nrai
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. Skt. niraya- "hell"; Skt. pāpa- "sin"
Lexeme variants:	ñare
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ñare	ñareyntu
voc
acc	ñare
gen
loc	ñareyaṃ	ñareyäṃtwaṃ
comit
inst
abl		ñareyäntwäṣ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ñare “hell” “sin” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	ñare	ñareyntu
  acc	ñare
  loc	ñareyaṃ	ñareyäṃtwaṃ
  abl		ñareyäntwäṣ

  • ñare-pālik “guardian of hell” m

    	sg	pl
    nom	ñare-pālik	ñare-pālikāñ
    acc	ñare-pālik

  • ñareṣi “pertaining to hell”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
    nom	ñareṣi	ñareṣi	ñareṣiñi
    acc	ñareṣiṃ, ñareṣinäṃ, ñareṣi	ñareṣi	ñareṣinäs	ñareṣṣās, ñareṣinās
    gen			ñareṣinäśśi

  • prattika-ñare “individual hell” n

    	sg	pl
    nom	prattika-ñare
    acc	prattika-ñare
    loc	prattika-ñareyaṃ	prattika-ñareyntwaṃ

Occurrences

ñare

1	A 247 b1	ṣñ(i) āñcäm{†ä} ; pñi	ñare	puk ; wawīku naṣt
2	A 309 b3	/// räṣ wtā-k śāwaṃ	ñare	b4 /// (ba)huśiṣyakaṃ ॥
3	A 314 b8	särki sne āk lokadhātu{ṃ}tw{ä→aṃ}	ñare	(l)w(ā) pretāsaṃ (ñäkta)s napeṃ(sa)ṃ
4	A 320 a5	tark(ar) /// a5 ///	ñare	lwā pretāñ kaṣt yok(e)yo
5	A 371 b5	ne śolīs muskālune tāṣ-ñi	ñare	(l)w(ā) pretāsaṃ ñäktas·· ///
6	THT 1422.b a4	/// a4 /// –	ñare	– /// a5 ///
7	THT 1462 a5	a5 /// – – (a)kmal	ñare	ma ·e – cä
8	THT 3988.a a4	/// a4 /// –	ñare	·u ndha kī ta
9	YQ II.6 b6	ñäb6(kteññāñ) ; 11σ ///	(ñare)	(pretās) ; (lwāṣi)nāñ ;
10	YQ III.6 a7	tsälpiñc ñukk oki ;	ñare	lwākäṣ ; pretāsäṣ :