ñare-pālik

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Meaning:	“guardian of hell”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. niraya-pālaka-
Lexeme variants:	ñare-pālik

Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-āñ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ñare-pālik	ñare-pālikāñ
voc
acc	ñare-pālik
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
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-pālik

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a6 °t ॥ tmäṣ

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