Kotthaka, Koṭṭhaka, Kottha-ka: 4 definitions

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koṭṭhaka : (m.) 1. stronghold; 2. a gateway; 3. place for concealment; 4. closet.

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

1) Koṭṭhaka, 2 (cp. Sk. koyaṣṭika) the paddy-bird, as rukkha° J. III, 25; II, 163 (v. l. ṭṭ). (Page 228)

2) Koṭṭhaka, 1 (nt.) “a kind of koṭṭha, ” the stronghold over a gateway, used as a store-room for various things, a chamber, treasury, granary Vin. II, 153, 210; for the purpose of keeping water in it Vin. II, 121=142; 220; treasury J. I, 230; II, 168;— store-room J. II, 246; koṭthake pāturahosi appeared at the gateway, i.e. arrived at the mansion Vin. I, 291.;— udaka-k a bath-room, bath cabinet Vin. I, 205 (cp. Bdhgh’s explanation at Vin. Texts II. 57); so also nahāna-k° and piṭṭhi-k°, bath-room behind a hermitage J. III, 71; DhA. II, 19; a gateway, Vin. II, 77; usually in cpd. dvāra-k° “door cavity, ” i.e. room over the gate: gharaṃ satta-dvāra-koṭṭhakapaṭimaṇḍitaṃ “a mansion adorned with seven gateways” J. I, 227=230, 290; VvA. 322. dvāra-koṭṭhakesu āsanāni paṭṭhapenti “they spread mats in the gateways” VvA. 6; esp. with bahi: bahi-dvārakoṭṭhakā nikkhāmetvā “leading him out in front of the gateway” A. IV, 206; °e thiṭa or nisinna standing or sitting in front of the gateway S. I, 77; M. I, 161, 382; A. III, 30.—bala-k. a line of infantry J. I, 179.—koṭṭhaka-kamma or the occupation connected with a storehouse (or bathroom?) is mentioned as an example of a low occupation at Vin. IV, 6; Kern, Toev. s. v. “someone who sweeps away dirt. ” (Page 228)

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

1) koṭṭhaka (ကောဋ္ဌက) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kusa+ṭhaka.kusa akkose ṭhako.,ṭī.2va4.]
[ကုသ+ဌက။ ကုသ အက္ကောသေ ဌကော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂ဝ၄။]

2) koṭṭhaka (ကောဋ္ဌက) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[koṭṭha+ka]
[ကောဋ္ဌ+က]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

[Pali to Burmese]

1) koṭṭhaka—

(Burmese text): (၁) ကျီကြ၊ စည့်။ (၂) ငှက်တစ်မျိုး။ ကောဋ္ဌ-(၅)-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Wear a shirt, please. (2) A type of bird. See (5) Kauththe.

2) koṭṭhaka—

(Burmese text): (၁) အိမ်အထူး။ (က) တံခါးမုခ်။ (ခ) သစ်ခက်တဲအုံ၊ လူနေအုံ။ (ဂ) ရေချိုးအိမ်။ (၂) ရေအုံ၊ ရေလှောင်ကျင်း။ (၃) လက်သမား။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Special houses. (a) Doorway. (b) Wooden hut, residential hut. (c) Bathhouse. (2) Water hut, water reservoir. (3) Fisherman.

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)
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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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