[pānā], v.t. to get, acquire, obtain, gain, find, (after verb stem) to manage to.
[◀MIA: Ap. parāvaï ‘obtains’, Pk. pāvaï ‘obtains’, Pa. pāpēti ‘makes obtain, brings to’ ◀OIA prāpayati ‘causes to be obtained’ TBr., ‘obtains’ R. <pra-√āp ‘to attain to; reach, arrive at, meet with, find’ <+② pra- ‘before, forth’ (♣Eng. for ) <√āp ‘obtain, reach’ ◀PIE *ap- (ǝp-) : ēp- ‘to take, grab, grasp, reach, clench, tie round’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. apt, adapt ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0219; (Turner, 1966) 8943, p.54; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 453; (MW, 1899) 0707, 0142, ② 0652; (Pokorny, 1959) 0050, ② 0810; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.167, ② 2.173
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