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A: Symbols and Glossary of Pali technical terms

symbolmeaningexplanation
🚹pulliṅgamajor (masculine) gender
🚻napuṁsakaliṅgaspecial (neuter) gender
🚺itthiliṅgaminor (feminine) gender
⨀ekavacanasingular
⨂bahuvacanaplural
🟢parassapada, kattuactive voice
🔵attanopada, bhāvamiddle voice - impersonal
🔴kammapassive voice
🟠kāritacausative
🤟paṭhama purisafirst person, equivalent to ‘third person’ in English
🤘majjima purisamiddle person, equivalent to ‘second person’ in English
👆uttama purisaprimary person, equivalent to ‘first person’ in English
⓪ālapanavocative
①paṭhamāfirst case (nominative)
②dutiyāsecond case (accusative)
③tatiyāthird case (instrumental)
④catutthīfourth case (dative)
⑤pañcamīfifth case (ablative)
⑥chaṭṭhīsixth case (genitive)
⑦sattamīseventh case (locative)
⏏️nipātaparticle
🔼upasaggaprefix
🆎samāsacompound noun
🔽taddhitaaffix
*️⃣sabbanāmapronoun
▶️vattamānapresent
⏹piñcamīimperative
⏯sattamīpotential
🔄parokkhāperfect
↩️hiyyattanīimperfect
⏮ajjatanīaorist
⏭bhavissantifuture
🔀kālātipatticonditional

dīgha : long

rassa : short

garuka : metrically long

lahuka : metrically short

sambaddha : connected utterance

vavatthita : disjoint utterance

sithila : non-aspirated stops

dhanita : aspirated stops

niggahīta : nasal

vimutta : oral

SymbolEnglishAṭṭhakathā
①nominativepaccatta
②accusativeupayoga
③instrumentalkaraṇa
④dativesampadāna
⑤ablativenissakka
⑥genitivesāmi
⑦locativebhumma
⓪vocativeālapana
  • Technical Terms and Technique of the Pali and the Sanskrit Grammars, Mahesh A Deokar, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (2008)