- to be completed, perfected in any work or art, e.g. of a trained horse MN.i.446. Cp. τελειόω.
- to die without being reborn to reach complete extinction of existence Vin.ii.194 (Tathāgathā ˚āyanti); MN.iii.128 (aor ˚nibbāyi); SN.v.152 (˚nibbāyeyyaṃ), SN.v.261 (˚nibbāyissāmi); AN.ii.120 (anupādisesāya nibbāna-dhātuyā p.); AN.iv.202 (id.), AN.iv.313 (id.), Mil.175 (id.); Ja.i.28 (id.), Ja.i.55 (id.); Vv-a.158 (fut ˚nibbāyissāmi); Pv-a.21, Pv-a.283 (of a Paccekabuddha).
- to become emancipated from all desire of life DN.ii.68 (cp. Dial. ii.65 & Brethren 417); SN.iv.102 (diṭṭh eva dhamme), ibid. (sa-upādāno devānaṃ indo na parinibbāyati), SN.iv.168; AN.iii.41 = Vin.ii.148, Vin.ii.164 (parinibbāti anāsavo); AN.iv.98 (aor. ˚nibbiṃsu anāsavā Thag.100 (fut. ˚nibbissati anāsavo), Thag.364; Iti.93 (˚nibbanti), cp. 95; Dhp.126 (˚nibbanti anāsavā perhaps better taken to No. 1!); Vb.426 (sabbāsave pariññāya parinibbanti anāsavā); Sdhp.584 (˚nibbanti mahoghen’ eva aggino)
pp parinibbuto (q.v.). Caus. parinibbāpeti (q.v.).
pari + nibb˚ cp. BSk. parinirvāti Divy.150 (Buddhā Bhagavantaḥ parinirvānti & ger. parinirvātavya ibid. 402