The corpus record — Pali

nālikaṁ

Nāḷikā

feminine a stalk, shaft; a tube, pipe or cylinder for holding anything; a small measure of capacity Vin.ii.116 (sūci˚, cp. sūcighara, needle-case) DN.i.7 (= bhesajja˚ DN-a.i.89 ); AN.i.210 ; Ja.i.123 (taṇḍula a nāḷi full of rice); Ja.vi.366 (aḍḍha-n-matta); Cnd.229 Cp. pa˚. - odana a nāḷi measure of

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Digha Nikaya 2 · 0.14/10k

What it meant — PTS Pali–English Dictionary

feminine a stalk, shaft; a tube, pipe or cylinder for holding anything; a small measure of capacity Vin.ii.116 (sūci˚, cp. sūcighara, needle-case) DN.i.7 (= bhesajja˚ DN-a.i.89); AN.i.210; Ja.i.123 (taṇḍula a nāḷi full of rice); Ja.vi.366 (aḍḍha-n-matta); Cnd.229 Cp. pa˚.

-odana a nāḷi measure of boiled rice SN.i.82; Dhp-a.iv.17;
-gabbha an (inner) room of tubular shape Vin.ii.152.

Sk. nāḍikā & nālikā

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Pali text and translations from SuttaCentral (Bilara), dedicated to the public domain (CC0). PTS Pali–English Dictionary entries, public domain.