dhātu

Borrowed from Sanskrit धातु (dhātu).

• IPA^(key): /da.tu/
• Rhymes: -atu
• Homophone: ḍatu
• Hyphenation: dhā‧tu

dhātu

1. constituent, ingredient
2. element

• → Balinese: ᬥᬵᬢᬸ (datu)

• "dhātu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Sanskrit धातु (dhātu). The grammatical sense is a semantic loan from Sanskrit धातु (dhātu).

dhātu f

1. element
2. natural condition
3. (religion) relic
4. (grammar) root of a word
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[1] (overall work in Pali), page 294; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     आस इच्चेताय धातुया तिस्स विभत्तिस्स त्थित्तं होति धात्वन्तस्स लोपो च।

     Asa iccetāya dhātuyā tissa vibhattissa tthittaṃ hoti dhātvantassa lopo ca.

     'As': from this root the ending 'ti' becomes 'tthi' and the end of the root is dropped

5. humour of the body
6. a faculty of the senses

kesadhātu

• → Burmese: ဓာတ် (dhat)
  • → Shan: ထၢတ်ႈ (thāat)
• → Khmer: ធាតុ (thiət)
• → Thai: ธาตุ (tâat)

Borrowed from Sanskrit धातु (dhātu).

dhātu m

1. (grammar) root of a word
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[2] (overall work in Pali), page 283; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     दिस इच्चेतस्स धातुस्स पस्स दिस्स दक्ख इच्चेते आदेसा होन्ति वा।

     Disa iccetassa dhātussa passa dissa dakkha iccete ādesā honti vā.

     'Dis': this root may become 'pass', 'diss' or 'dakkh'.

• → Thai: ธาตุ (tâat)

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “dhātu”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead