# पित्त (pitta)

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पित्त (pitta) is a Sanskrit word meaning bile or the bilious humour, bile, the bilious humor, bile or the bilious humor, the bile, bile, one of the three humours of the body. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them Bile or the bilious humour (general definition), Bile as one of the three Ayurvedic humours (Tridosha).

- **Etymology:** E. अपि certainly, दो to destroy, or देङ् to nourish, aff. क्त, deriv. irr., or तप् to inflame, aff. क्त, and the radical letters transposed — E. api certainly, do to destroy, or deṅ to nourish, aff. kta, deriv. irr., or tap to inflame, aff. kta, and the radical letters transposed
- **SLP1:** `pitta`  **IAST:** pitta  **Devanagari:** पित्त
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/pitta/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Bile or the bilious humour (general definition) (6 definitions)
- bile  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 162-3 ] पित्त (pitta) pittá, n. bile: -upasṛṣṭa, pp. suffering from bile. [ ID=11619 ]
- Bile or the bilious humor.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 536 ] पित्त (pitta) n. ( - त्तं (-ttaṃ) ) Bile, the bilious humour. E. अपि (api) certainly, दी (dī) to destroy, or देङ् (deṅ) to nourish, aff. क्त (kta), deriv. irr., or तप (tapa) to inflame, aff. क्त (kta), and the radical letters transposed. [ ID=24781 ]
- Bile  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 480-a ] पित्त (pitta) ( त्तं ) ((ttaṃ)) 1. n. Bile. [ ID=24261 ]
- Bile or the bilious humour  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 452-a ] पित्त (pitta) n. ( - त्तं (-ttaṃ) ) Bile, the bilious humour. E. अपि (api) certainly, दो (do) to destroy, or देङ् (deṅ) to nourish, aff. क्त, (kta,) deriv. irr., or तप् (tap) to inflame, aff. क्त, (kta,) and the radical letters transposed. [ ID=24891 ]
- Bile  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 0552-a ] पित्त (pitta) pitta, n. Bile, MBh. 6, 3736. — Comp. Nāsā-rakta-, n. bleeding of the nose. [ ID=8835 ]
- the bile  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 316 ] पित्त (pitta) n. the bile. [ ID=19175 ]

### Bile as one of the three Ayurvedic humours (Tridosha) (3 definitions)
- bile or the bilious humour  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1) [Printed book page 627,1] पित्त (pitta) n. ( etym. unknown) bile, the bilious humour (one of the three humours [ cf. कफ (kapha) and वायु (vāyu) ] or that secreted between the stomach and bowels and flowing through the liver and permeating spleen, heart, eyes, and skin; its chief quality is heat), AV.; &c. [ ID=124196 ]
- Bile, one of the three humours of the body  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 438-03 ] पित्त (pitta) m. Bile, one of the three humours of the body (the other two being वात (vāta) and कफ (kapha) ), K.Pr. x., Yaj. iii.77. [ ID=22545 ]
- bile, the bilious humor  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 0575-a ] पित्त (pitta) pitta, am, n. (etymology doubtful), bile, the bilious humor, one of the three humors of the body (the other two being vāta and kapha; it is especially secreted between the stomach and bowels, and thence flows through the liver, and distributes itself in the spleen, heart, eyes, and skin; its chief quality is heat); [cf. kūrma-p°, go-p°, rakta-p°, paittika. ] —Pitta-koṣa, as, m. the gall-bladder. —Pitta-kṣobha, as, m. excess and disturbance of the bilious humor. —Pitta-gadin, ī, inī, i, suffering from bilious complaints, bilious. —Pitta-ghna, as, ī, am, ‘bile-destroying,’ anti- bilious; ( am ), n. an antidote to bilious com- plaints; ghee ?; ( ī ), f. a plant, Cocculus Cordifolius. —Pitta-jvara, as, m. bilious fever. —Pitta-drā- vin, ī, iṇī, i, ‘bile-dispersing,’ removing bile; ( ī ), m. the sweet citron ( = madhura-jambīra ). —Pitta- dhara, as, ā, am, containing bile, bilious. —Pitta- nivarhaṇa, as, ā, am, destroying bile. —Pitta- prakṛti, is, is, i, being of a bilious temperament. —Pitta-prakopa, as, m. excess and vitiation of the bilious humor. —Pitta-rakta, am, n. plethora; [cf. rakta-pitta. ] —Pitta-rogin, ī, iṇī, i, suffering from bilious complaints, bilious. —Pitta-vat, ān, atī, at, having bile, bilious. —Pitta-vāyu, us, m. flatulence arising from excess and vitiation of the bilious humor. —Pitta-vidagdha, as, ā, am, burnt up by bile, impaired or destroyed by bile. —Pitta- vināśana, as, ī, am, ‘bile-destroying,’ antibilious. —Pitta-śamana, as, ī, am, ‘bile-alleviating,’ antibilious. —Pitta-syanda, as, m. a bilious form of ophthalmia; [cf. pittābhiṣyanda. ] —Pitta- hara, as, ī, am, ‘bile-removing,’ antibilious. —Pit- tātīsāra (°ta-at°), as, m. ‘bile-dysentery,’ a bilious form of diarrhœa. —Pittātīsārin, ī, iṇī, i, suffering from a bilious form of dysentery. —Pittābhiṣyanda (°ta-abh°), as, m. a bilious form of ophthalmia; [cf. pitta-syanda. ] —Pittāri (°ta-ari), is, m. ‘enemy of bile,’ i. e. anything antibilious; N. of various plants and vegetable substances used to coun- teract biliousness ( = parpaṭa, lākṣā, and varvara ). —Pittopahata (°ta-up°), as, ā, am, impaired or destroyed by bile. [ ID=29250 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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