The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Giddhim! (adj. fr. giddhi) greedy, full of greed J v.464 (rasa˚).
Gini
Gini (poet.) [Vedic agni; this the aphetic form, arisen in a combn like mah!gni =mah! -- gini, as against the
usual assimilation aggi] fire A iii.347 (mah!gini); Sn 18, 19 (!hito > nibbuto: made > extinguished); J
iv.26.
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Note. The occurrence of two phonetic representatives of one Vedic form (one by diaeresis & one by
contraction) is common in words containing a liquid or nasal element (l. r. n; cp. note on gala), e. g. supina
& soppa (Sk. svapna), abhikkha*a and abhi*ha (abh"k+*a), silesuma & semha ($le+man) ga)aga)a &
gaggara (gargara), etc.
Gimha
Gimha [Vedic gr"+ma] I. (sg.) heat, in special application to the atmosphere: hot part (of the day or year),
hot season, summer; a summer month. Always used in loc. as a designation of time. 1. of the day: VvA 40
(˚samaye; v. l. gimh!nam!se). -- 2. of summer: usually in combn w. and in contrast to hemanta winter:
hemanta -- gimhisu in w. & s. Dh 286 (cp. gimhika for ˚isu). Miln 274; Dpvs i.55; Vism 231 (˚âbhitatta
worn out by the heat); Sdhp 275 (˚k!le). In enumn w. other seasons: vasse hemante gimhe Nd2 631 (sad!);
vasanta gimh!dika ut( PvA 135. -- 3. of a summer month; pa&hamasmi' gimhe Sn 233 (see KhA 192 for
expln) -- II. (pl.) gimh! the hot months, the season of summer, in ˚na' pacchime m!se, in the last month of
summer M i.79; S iii.141; v.50, 321; Vv 795 (=!s!)him!se VvA 307).
Gimh!na
Gimh!na (adj. -- n.) [orig. gen. pl. of gimh!=gimh!na', fr. combn gimh!na(') m!se, in a month of summer]
of summer, summerly, the summer season A iv.138 (+hemanta & vassa); Sn 233 (gimh!nam!se); VvA 40
(v. l.). On terms for seasons in gen. cp. Miln trsl. ii.113.
Gimhika
Gimhika (adj. fr. gimha) summerly, relating to the summer, for the summer Vin i.15; D ii.21 (+vassika &
hemantika).
Gir!
Gir! [Vedic gir & g/r, song; g%*!ti to praise, announce g(rti praise=Lat. grates "grace"; to *ger or *g9er,
see note on gala] utterance (orig. song, important utterance, still felt as such in older P!li, therefore mostly
poetical), speech, words D iii.174; Sn 350, 632, 690, 1132; Dh 408; Th 2, 316, 402; Vv 5018 (=v!c! VvA);
Dhs 637, 720; DhsA 93; DA i.61 (a&&hangupeta' gira'), J ii.134.
Giri
Giri [Vedic giri, Obulg. gora mountain] a mountain; as a rule only in cpds, by itself (poetical) only at Vism
206 (in enumn of the 7 large mountains). -- agga mountain top, in giraggasamajja N. of a festival celebrated
yearly at R!jagaha, orig. a festival on the mountain top (cp. Dial. i.8 & Vin. Texts iii.71). Vin ii.107, 150;
iv.85, 267; J iii.538; DhA i.89. The BSk. version is girivaggu -- sam!gama Av- ii.24; -- kannik! (f.) N. of a
plant (Clitoria ternatea) Vism 173; DhA i.383 (v. l. ka**ik! cp. Sk. ˚karn";) -- gabbhara=˚guh! Sn 416; --
guh! a mountain cleft, a rift, a gorge; always in formula pabbata kandara g˚, therefore almost equivalent to
kandara, a grotto or cave Vin ii.146; D i.71= M i.269, 274, 346, 440=A ii.210=Pug 59 (as giri' guha'); A