paccaya

Pali

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• 𑀧𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀬 (Brahmi script)
• पच्चय (Devanagari script)
• পচ্চয (Bengali script)
• පච‍්චය (Sinhalese script)
• ပစ္စယ or ပၸ္ၸယ or ပၸ်ၸယ (Burmese script)
• ปจฺจย or ปัจจะยะ (Thai script)
• ᨷᨧ᩠ᨧᨿ (Tai Tham script)
• ປຈ຺ຈຍ or ປັຈຈະຍະ or ປັຈຈະຢະ (Lao script)
• បច្ចយ (Khmer script)
• 𑄛𑄌𑄴𑄌𑄠 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit प्रत्यय (pratyaya).

Noun

paccaya m

1. cause, motive
   • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r‎^[1] (PDF), page 20:

     ...ເຈຕະສິກາ ຘັມມາ ຈິຕຕະສະມຸຏຖານັງ ຣູປາບັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະ
     ເຍນະ ປັຈຈະໂຍ

     [citta]cetasikā dhammā cittasamuṭthānaṃ rūpānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo

     Mental factors are a cause of the forms of origination in the mind via the non-disappearance condition.

2. requisite
   • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r‎^[2] (PDF), page 20:

     ຣູປາຍະຕະນັງ ສັທຘາຍະຕະນັງ
     ຆັນຘາຍະຕະນັງ ຣະສາຍະຕະນັງ ໂຜຏຖັພພາຍະຕະນັງ ມະໂນຘາຕຸຍາ
     ຕັງ ສັມປະຍຸຕຕະການັຎຈະ ຘັມມານັງ ອະວິຄະຕະປັຈຈະເຍນະ ປັຈ
     ຈະໂຍ

     rūpāyatanaṃ saddhāyatanaṃ ghandhāyatanaṃ rasāyatanaṃ phoṭthabbāyatanaṃ manodhātuyā taṃ sampayuttakānañca dhammānaṃ avigatapaccayena paccayo

     Visible object, sound, odour, taste, and tangible object are the cause of the factors of the mind-element and its concomitants via the non-disappearance condition

3. means
4. support
5. (grammar) affix
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[3] (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     वचवसवहादीनं उकारो वस्स ये ॥६॥
     वच, वस, वह इच्चेवमादीनं धातूनं वकारस्स उकारो होति य पच्चये परे । उच्चते, वुच्चति; वुस्सति; वुय्हति ॥

     6. Vacavasavahādīnaṃ ukāro vassa ye
     Vaca, vasa, vaha iccevamādīnaṃ dhātūnaṃ vakārassa ukāro hoti ya paccaye pare.Uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.

     Vac, vas, vah etc. which have 'u' for 'va'
     Roots vac, vas, vah and so on etc. have 'u' from 'va' next to the ending 'ya'.
     Exx: uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.

Declension

Declension table of "paccaya" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	paccayo	paccayā
Accusative (second)	paccayaṃ	paccaye
Instrumental (third)	paccayena	paccayehi or paccayebhi
Dative (fourth)	paccayassa or paccayāya or paccayatthaṃ	paccayānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	paccayasmā or paccayamhā or paccayā	paccayehi or paccayebhi
Genitive (sixth)	paccayassa	paccayānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	paccayasmiṃ or paccayamhi or paccaye	paccayesu
Vocative (calling)	paccaya	paccayā

Descendants

• → Burmese: ပစ္စည်း (paccany:)
• → Khmer: បច្ច័យ (paccay)

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pratyaya”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 488