to know by experience, to know fully or thoroughly, to recognise know of (c. acc.), to be conscious or aware of DN.i.143; SN.ii.58, SN.ii.105, SN.ii.219, SN.ii.278; SN.iii.59, SN.iii.91; SN.iv.50, SN.iv.324, SN.iv.399; SN.v.52 SN.v.176, SN.v.282, SN.v.299; Snp.1117 (diṭṭhiṃ Gotamassa na a.) Ja.iv.142; Pv.ii.7#10 = Pv.ii.10#3 (n’ābhijānāmi bhuttaṃ vā pītaṃ) Sdhp.550; etc
pot abhijāneyya Cnd.78#a, & abhijaññā Snp.917, Snp.1059 (= jāneyyāsi Snp-a.592); aor. abhaññāsi Snp.p.16
ppr abhijānaṃ SN.iv.19, SN.iv.89; Snp.788 (= ˚jānanto C.), Snp.1114 (= ˚jānanto Cnd.78#b) abhijānitva Dhp-a.iv.233; abhiññāya SN.iv.16; SN.v.392; Snp.534 (sabbadhammaṃ), Snp.743 (jātikkhayaṃ), Snp.1115, Snp.1148; Iti.91 (dhammaṃ) Dhp.166 (atta-d-atthaṃ); freq. in phrase sayaṃ abhiññāya from personal knowledge or self-experience Iti.97 (v.l abhiññā); Dhp.353; and abhiññā [short form, like ādā for ādāya, cp. upādā] in phrase sayaṃ abhiññā DN.i.31 (+ sacchikatvā); SN.ii.217; Iti.97 (variant reading for ˚abhiññāya), in abhiññā-vosita perfected by highest knowledge SN.i.167 SN.i.175 = Dhp.423 (“master of supernormal lore” Mrs Rh. D in kindred S. p. 208; cp. also Dhp-a.iv.233); Iti.47 Iti.61 = Iti.81, and perhaps also in phrase sabbaṃ abhiññapariññeyya SN.iv.29
grd abhiññe y ya SN.iv.29; Snp.558 (˚ṃ abhiññātaṃ known is the knowable); Nd ii.s.v. Dhp-a.iv.233
pp abhiññāta (q.v.).
abhi + jñā, cp. jānāti & abhiññā