The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Vanaka ( -- ) (adj.) [fr. vana1] belonging to the forest, forest- like; adj. in cpd. ku˚ (kubbanaka, q. v.)
brushwood Sn 1134.
Vanati, Vanute, Vanoti
Vanati, Vanute, Vanoti [van; Sk. vanoti & vanute. See also vana2, va*i, va*eti] to desire, love, wish, aim
at, ask for SnA 24 (vanute & vanoti); DhsA 364 (vanati, bhajati, all"yati). Caus. vanayati KhA 111.
Vanatha
Vanatha [vana+tha; same in BSk. e. g. MVastu i.204] underwood, brushwood, thicket. Does not occur in
lit. meaning, except in exegesis of Dh 283 at DhA iii.424; q. v. under vana1. Another defn is given at SnA
24: "ta*h! pariyu&&h!na -- vasena vana' tanot" ti vanatho, ta*h' !nusayass' eta' adhivacana'." -- The fig.
meaning is "lust, desire," see e. g. S i.186; Th 1, 338; Dh 344; Sn 16 (˚ja); Dhs 1059 (as epithet of ta*h!); J
ii.205 (vanatha' na kayir!); Nett 81, 82. -- nibbanatha free from desire S i.180; DhsA 364.
Van!yati
Van!yati [Denom. fr. vana2, cp, van!yati] to desire, wish, covet, to hanker after M i.260; S iii.190. See also
all"yati.
Vanika
Vanika=vanaka; only in cpd. n!ga˚ one belonging to the elephant forest, i e. an elephant -- hunter M i.175;
iii.132.
Vanin
Vanin (adj. -- n.) [either fr. Sk. vani (=P. va*i) in meaning "begging," or poetical abbreviation of va*ibbin]
poor, begging; one who asks (for alms) or begs, a mendicant J vi.232 (=vanibbaka C.).
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Vanibbaka see va*ibbaka
Vanibbaka see va*ibbaka.
Van"yati
Van"yati [Denom. fr. vani=P. va*i] to desire J vi.264 C.: (pattheti), 270 (hadaya' van"yati, v. l. dhan"yati:
cp. all"yati). -- See also vanati & va*eti.
Vaneja
Vaneja [vane (loc. of vana1)+ja] born in the woods J ii.446.
Vanta
Vanta [pp. of vamati] 1. vomited, or one who has vomited Miln 214; PvA 80. As nt. vomit at Vin i.303. --
2. (fig.) given up, thrown up, left behind, renounced M i.37 (+catta, mutta & pah"na). Cp. BSk. v!nt" --
bh!va, syn. with prah!na Av- ii.188. -- âda refuse -- feeder, crow J ii.439. -- !sa one who has given up all
wishes, an Arahant Dh 97 (=sabb! !s! imin! vant! DhA i.187). -- âsika eating what has been vomited, a