neuter
- skin, hide, leather Vin.i.192 (sīha˚ vyaggha˚ dīpi˚), Vin.i.196 (elaka˚ aja˚ miga˚) AN.iv.393 (sīha˚ dīpi˚); Pv-a.157 (kadalimiga˚ as rug) Ja.ii.110 (sīha˚); Ja.iii.82, Ja.iii.184; Mil.53; Sdhp.140. It is supposed to be subcutaneous (under chavi as tegument) & next to the bone: chaviṃ chindetvā cammaṃ chindati SN.ii.238 = AN.iv.129; freq. in expr. like aṭṭhi-cammanahāru-matta (skin & bones) Pv-a.68, see under nahāru camma-maṃsa-nahāru Pv-a.80.
- a shield Vin.ii.192 (asi˚ sword & shield); MN.i.86; AN.iii.93; Ja.v.373 Ja.vi.580.
- -aṇḍa a water-skin Ja.i.250;
- -kāra a worker in leather a tanner Vin.iv.7; Mil.331; a harness-maker Ja.v.45 a waggon-builder and general artisan Ja.iv.174 (= rathakāra); Also as -kārin Pv-a.175 (= rathakārin);
- -khaṇḍa an animal’s skin, used as a rug Mil.366; Vism.99; skin used as a water-vessel (see khaṇḍa) Vin.ii.122; Pts.i.176
- -ghaṭaka a water- skin Ja.ii.345;
- -naddha (nt.) a drum Bv.i.31;
- -pasibbaka a sack, made of skin or leather Thag-a.283; Ja.vi.431, Ja.vi.432 (as variant reading);
- -bandha a leather strap Vin.i.194;
- -bhastā (f.) a sack Ja.v.45;
- -aṇḍa a water-skin Ja.i.250;
- -yodhin a soldier in cuirass DN.i.51≈(in list of var. occupations; DN-a.i.157: cammakañcukaṃ pavisitvā); AN.iv.107, AN.iv.110;
- -varatta (f.) a leather thong Ja.ii.153;
- -vāsin one who wears the skin (of a black antelope), i.e. a hermit Ja.vi.528;
- -sāṭaka an ascetic wearing clothes of skin Ja.iii.82 (nāma paribbājaka).
Vedic carman, cp. Lat. corium hide or leather, cortex bark, scortum hide; Ohg. herdo; Ags heorδa = E. hide; also Sk. kṛtti; Ohg. scirm (shield) E. skin; from *sqer to cut, skin (cp. kaṭu) = the cut-off hide, cp. Gr. δέρω: (δέρμα