The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

V! (indecl.) [Ved. v!, Av. v!, Gr. h)/, Lat. -- ve] part. of dis- junction: "or"; always enclitic Kh viii. (itthiy!
purisassa v!; m!tari pitari v! pi). Usually repeated v! -- v! (is it so -- ) or, either -- or, e. g. Sn 1024
(Brahm! v! Indo v! pi); Dh 1 (bh!sati v! karoti v!); PvA 74 (putto v! dh"t! v! natthi?). -- with negation in
second place: whether -- or not, or not, e. g. hoti v! no v! is there or is there not D i.61; ta' patthehi v! m!
v! VvA 226. -- Combined with other emphatic particles: (na) v! pana not even Pv ii.69 (manussena
amanussena v! pana); v! pi or even Sn 382 (ye v! pi ca); Pv ii.614 (isayo v! pi ye sant! etc.); iti v! Nd2
420; atha v! Dh 83 (sukhena atha v! dukhena); uda . . . v! Sn 232 (k!yena v!c! uda cetas! v!). -- In verse
v! is sometimes shortened to va, e. g. devo va Brahm! v! Sn 1024: see va4.
V!k
V!k (˚ -- ) [Vedic v!c, for which the usual P. form is v!c!] speech, voice, talk; only in cpd. ˚kara*a talk,
speaking, conversation, as k!ly!*a -- v!k -- kara*a good speech A ii.97; iii.195, 261; iv.296 sq.; 328; v.155;
abstr. ˚ta A i.38. Cp. v!kya.
V!ka
V!ka (nt.) [late Sk. valka, cp. P. vakka] the bark of a tree D i.167; Vin iii.34; J i.304; ii.141; Vism
249=VbhA 232 (akka˚ & makaci˚); Miln 128. -- av!ka without bark J iii.522. -- c"ra (=c"vara) a bark
garment worn by an ascetic Vin iii.34; A i.240, 295; J i.8, 304; v.132; Pug 55. -- maya made of bark Vin
ii.130.
V!kar!=v!gul!
V!kar!=v!gul!; net, snare M i.153 (da*.a˚, Dvandva); ii.65. -- As v!kara at J iii.541; as v!kura at Th 1,
774.
V!kya
V!kya (nt.) [fr. vac: see v!k & v!c!; Vedic v!kya] saying, speech, sentence, usually found in poetry only,
e. g. D ii.166 (su*antu bhonto mama eka -- v!kya'); A ii.34 (sutv! arahato v!kya'); iii.40 (katv!na v!kya'
Asitassa t!dino); Sn 1102 (=vacana Nd2 559); J iv.5; v.78; Ap 25; KhA 166 (˚op!d!na resumption of the
sentence); DhsA 324 (˚bheda "significant sentence" trsln).
V!gam!
V!gam! at Mhvs 19, 28 (tadahe v. r!j!) is to be read (tadah' ev) !gam!, i. e. came on the same day. The
passage is corrupt: see trsln p. 130.
V!gura & ˚!
V!gura & ˚! (f.) [cp. Epic & Class. Sk. v!gur!; to Idg. *9eg to weave, as in Lat. velum sail, Ags. wecca=E.
wick; Ohg. waba=Ger. wabe] a net; as ˚a J vi.170; KhA 47 (s(kara˚); ThA 78; as ˚! J vi.582. Another P.
form is v!kar!.
V!caka
V!caka (adj.) [fr. v!c!] reciting, speaking, expressing SnA 164 (lekha˚); sotthi˚ an utterer of blessings, a
herald Miln 359. -- f. ˚ik! speech Sdhp 55.
V!canaka