अपि

See also: अप, अपी, and अप्

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• api (Latin script)
• 𑀅𑀧𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• অপি (Bengali script)
• අපි (Sinhalese script)
• အပိ or ဢပိ (Burmese script)
• อปิ or อะปิ (Thai script)
• ᩋᨷᩥ (Tai Tham script)
• ອປິ or ອະປິ (Lao script)
• អបិ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄛𑄨 (Chakma script)

Particle

अपि (api)

1. Devanagari script form of api
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[1], page 6; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     या च पन सक्कतगन्थेसु समञ्ञा घोसाति वाघोसाति वा ता पयोगे सति एत्थापि पयुज्जते

     Yā ca pana sakkataganthesu samaññā ghosāti vāghosāti vā tā payoge sati etthāpi payujjate.

     And moreover that designation either 'voiced' or 'unvoiced' which is in Sanskrit texts is applied even here when there is occasion.

Conjunction

अपि (api)

1. Devanagari script form of api (“even”)

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• অপি (Assamese script)
• ᬅᬧᬶ (Balinese script)
• অপি (Bengali script)
• 𑰀𑰢𑰰 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀅𑀧𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• အပိ (Burmese script)
• અપિ (Gujarati script)
• ਅਪਿ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌅𑌪𑌿 (Grantha script)
• ꦄꦥꦶ (Javanese script)
• 𑂃𑂣𑂱 (Kaithi script)
• ಅಪಿ (Kannada script)
• អបិ (Khmer script)
• ອປິ (Lao script)
• അപി (Malayalam script)
• ᠠᢒᡳ (Manchu script)
• 𑘀𑘢𑘱 (Modi script)
• ᠠᢒᠢ (Mongolian script)
• 𑦠𑧂𑧒 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐀𑐥𑐶 (Newa script)
• ଅପି (Odia script)
• ꢂꢦꢶ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆃𑆥𑆴 (Sharada script)
• 𑖀𑖢𑖰 (Siddham script)
• අපි (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩐𑩰𑩑 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚀𑚞𑚮 (Takri script)
• அபி (Tamil script)
• అపి (Telugu script)
• อปิ (Thai script)
• ཨ་པི (Tibetan script)
• 𑒁𑒣𑒱 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨀𑨞𑨁 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hápi, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hápi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́.pi/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.pi/

Preposition

अपि • (ápi)

1. (preposition with location) close by or to, within, before; adv. further, also, too; even (with {na} = Latin quidem); at least, however, but (between words, clauses and sentences, or after, r. before an emphasized word).
2. After numerals = all

   all the four castes, etc.

3. At the beginning of a sentence, it is a particle of interrogation.

Adverb

अपि • (ápi)

1. too
2. also

Suffix

अपि • (ápi)

1. With an optative it expresses hope, fear, or desire. -- {api ca} or {cApi} further, moreover. {api--api} (or {ca}) as well as. {api ca--ja cApi} rather than. {ye'pi--te'pi} they too--who. {yadyapi} however, although. {tathApi} even so, nevertheless.
2. Converts an interrogative into an indefinite.

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “अपि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 55/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 86
• “अपि” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 30.