निकम्मा نِکَمّا ♣ Eng. nirvana + tera- (prefix)
[ni-kammā], adj. worthless, idle, useless.
[◀MIA: Pk. ṇikkamma- ‘unoccupied’ ◀OIA niṣkarman- ‘inactive’ Kull. <+②nis- prep. or prefix, ‘out, forth, away from, without, dis-, -less’ (♣Eng. nirvana ) <kárman- n. ‘act, work’ RV. <√kr̥ ‘do’ ◀PIE *kʷer- ‘to do, form, make’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. tera- (prefix)]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1149, ② 1136; (Turner, 1966) 7475, 2892, p.177; (MW, 1899) 0542, 0258, 0300, ② 0543; (Pokorny, 1959) 0641; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.318, 1.307, ② 2.047
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