Hello everyone, I have a brief question:
Do adjectives go before or after the noun in Pali?
For instance, should it be "Dhamma Mulika" or "Mulika Dhamma"? (Mulika, meaning "fundamental" or "elementary")
Or, should it be "Dhamma Pantha" or "Pantha Dhamma"? (Pantha, meaning "path" or "road")
Additionally, if used to name a location, does that affect the order? Like the name of a monastery.
Thank you!
adjectives go before or after noun in Pali?
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Hello,
In such cases, before.
In such cases, before.
Re: adjectives go before or after noun in Pali?
Usually adjective precedes the word it qualifies, if there are several adjectives, only the first precedes, the rest follows. If the adjective follows the noun, then it is for the emphasis, and can be translated as “who is / which is".
Can you give an example?Additionally, if used to name a location, does that affect the order? Like the name of a monastery.
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Can you give an example?Additionally, if used to name a location, does that affect the order? Like the name of a monastery.
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Here are many examples. They are all Dhamma center names in Sri Lanka:
Dhamma Siri, Dhamma Kuta, Dhamma Ārāma, Dhamma Bhubaneshwar, Dhamma Cetiya Paṭṭhāra, Dhamma Lābha, Dhamma Manohara, Dhamma Mitta Yāna.
In every case, the adjective follows "Dhamma". Perhaps for emphasis, as aforementioned.
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Why do you think these are adjectives?saturnstroll wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:39 pm
Here are many examples. They are all Dhamma center names in Sri Lanka:
Dhamma Siri, Dhamma Kuta, Dhamma Ārāma, Dhamma Bhubaneshwar, Dhamma Cetiya Paṭṭhāra, Dhamma Lābha, Dhamma Manohara, Dhamma Mitta Yāna.
In every case, the adjective follows "Dhamma". Perhaps for emphasis, as aforementioned.
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Those terms are attributes / modifiers / qualifiers. A very common type of attributes are adjectives, hence it's easy to conflate the terminology.
Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
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I think may be "dhamma" is an adjective here. Or alternatively they can be considered as compounds (tappurisa or kammadhāraya), which are separated by space for convenience.saturnstroll wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:39 pm Dhamma Siri, Dhamma Kuta, Dhamma Ārāma, Dhamma Bhubaneshwar, Dhamma Cetiya Paṭṭhāra, Dhamma Lābha, Dhamma Manohara, Dhamma Mitta Yāna.
In every case, the adjective follows "Dhamma". Perhaps for emphasis, as aforementioned.
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I think treating them as compounds would be more common Pali. Like dhammadāyāda (sutta) [tappurisa]. So, it should be probably Dhammasiri, Dhammakuta, Dhammārāma, etc. I don't think Dhamma as adjective meaning "doctrinal" is used in the texts.