āsi

a sword, a large knife DN.i.77 (= DN-a.i.222); MN.ii.99; AN.i.48 = (asinā sīsaṃ chindante); AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Ja.iv.118 (asi sunisito), Ja.iv.184; Ja.v.45 (here meaning “sickle”), Ja.v.475 (asiñ ca me maññasi, probably faulty for either “āsiñ ca me or “āsiñcam me”); Vism.201 (ñāṇâsi the sword of knowledge); Pv-a.253 (asinā pahaṭa).

• -camma sword & shield Vin.ii.192; AN.iii.93; Ja.vi.449
• -tharu the hilt of a sword Dhp-a.iv.66.
• -nakha having nails like swords Pgdp.29.
• -patta having sword-like leaves with swords (knives) for leaves (of the sword-leaf-wood in Niraya, a late feature in the descriptions of Purgatory in Indian speculative Theology, see e.g. Mārk-aṇḍeyapurāṇa xii.24 sq.; Mhbhārata xii.321; Manu iv.90; xii. 75; Scherman, Visionsliteratur pp. 23 sq.) Ja.vi.250 (˚niraya); Pv-a.221 (˚vana); Sdhp.194.
• -pāsa having swords for snares (a class of deities) Mil.191.
• -māla (-kamma) sword-garland (-torture) Ja.iii.178 (+ sīsaṃ chindāpeti); Dāvs iii.35. Preferable to interpretation “sword-dirt”, see māla (mālā).
• -lakkhana “swordsign”, i.e. (fortune -telling from) marks or a sword DN.i.9; Ja.i.455.
• -loma having swords for hair SN.ii.257 cp. Vin.iii.106.
• -sūna slaughter-house (so also B.Sk asisūnā Divy.10, Divy.15; see further detail under “kāma similes) Vin.ii.26; MN.i.130, MN.i.143; AN.iii.97.
• -sūla a swordblade Thig.488 (expl^d. at Thag-a.287 by adhikuṭṭanatthena i.e. with reference to the executioner’s block, cp. also sattisūla).

Vedic asi, Av. aṃhū Lat. ensis

3^rd & 1^st sg. aor. of atthi (q.v.).