dīghaṁ

adjective noun

1. (adj.) long DN.i.17; MN.i.429; SN.i.104 (˚ṃ addhānaṃ); Snp.146, Snp.633 (opp. rassa); Dhp.60 Dhp.409; Pv.i.10#11 (˚ṃ antaraṃ all the time); Pv.ii.9#55 (id.) Thag.646 (˚m-antare); Dhs.617; Kp-a.245; Pv-a.27, Pv-a.28 Pv-a.33, Pv-a.46. See def. at Vism.272
   ■ dīghato lengthways Ja.vi.185; dīghaso in length Vin.iv.279; atidīgha too long Vin.iv.7, Vin.iv.8.
2. (m.) a snake (cp. Mvu.ii.45 dīrghaka) Ja.i.324; Ja.ii.145; Ja.iv.330.
3. Name of the Dīgha Nikāya (“the long collection”) Vism.96.

• -aṅgulin having long fingers (the 4th of the marks of a Mahāpurisa) DN.ii.17; DN.iii.143, DN.iii.150;
• -antara corridor Ja.vi.349.
• -āyu long-lived (opp. app’ āyu) DN.i.18; Ja.v.71. Also as -ka DN.iii.150; DN-a.i.135; Sdhp.511
• -āvu = ˚āyu in the meaning of āyasmant (q.v.) Ja.v.120
• -jāti (f.) a being of the snake kind, a snake Dhp-a.iii.322 also as ˚ka at Ja.ii.145; Ja.iii.250; Ja.iv.333; Ja.v.449; DN-a.i.252;
• -dasa having long fringes DN.i.7;
• -dassin [Sk dīrghadarśin] far-seeing (= sabba-dassāvin) Pv-a.196
• -nāsika having a long nose Vism.283.
• -bhāṇaka a repeater or expounder of the Dīgha Nikāya Ja.i.59 Vism.36, Vism.266, Vism.286; DN-a.i.15, DN-a.i.131;
• -rattaṃ (adv.) [Sk *dīrgharātraṃ, see Indexes to Avs; Divy & Lal. V. otherwise dīrgha-kālaṃ] a long time DN.i.17, DN.i.206; AN.v.194; Snp.649; Iti.8; Ja.i.12, Ja.i.72; Pv.i.4#4; Pv.ii.13#11 (˚rattāya = ˚rattaṃ Pv-a.165); Pp.15; Dhp-a.iv.24;
• -loma long-haired Vin.iii.129; also as -ka at Ja.i.484, f. ˚ikā SN.ii.228;
• -sotthiya (nt.) long welfare or prosperity Dhp-a.ii.227.