okāsa : [m.] room; open space; chance; permission.
Okāsa [ava + kāś to shine] -- 1. lit. "visibility", (visible) space as geometrical term, open space, atmosphere, air as space D i.34 (ananto okāso); Vism 184 (with disā & pariccheda), 243 (id.); PvA 14 (okāsaŋ pharitvā permeating the atmosphere). This meaning is more pronounced in ākāsa. -- 2. "visibility", i. e. appearance, as adj. looking like, appearing. This meaning closely resembles & often passes over into meaning 3, e. g. katokāsa kamma when the k. makes its appearance = when its chance or opportunity arises PvA 63; okāsaŋ deti to give one's appearance, i. e. to let any one see, to be seen by (dat.) PvA 19. -- 3. occasion, chance, opportunity, permission, consent, leave A i.253; iv.449; J iv.413 (vātassa o. natthi the wind has no access); SnA 547. -- In this meaning freq. in combn. with foll. verbs: (a) okāsaŋ karoti to give permission, to admit, allow; to give a chance or opportunity, freq. with pañhassa veyyā -- karaṇāya (to ask a question), e. g. D i.51, 205; M ii.142; S iv 57. <-> Vin i.114, 170; Nd1 487; PvA 222. -- Caus. ˚ŋ karoti Vin ii.5, 6, 276; Caus. II. ˚ŋ kārāpeti Vin i.114, 170. <-> katokāsa given permission (to speak), admitted in audience, granted leave Sn 1031; VvA 65 (raññā); anokāsakata without having got permission Vin i.114. -- (b) okāsaŋ yācati to ask permission M ii.123. -- (c) okāsaŋ deti to give permission, to consent, give room J ii.3; VvA 138. <-> (d) with bhū: anokāsa -- bhāva want of opportunity Sdhp 15; anokāsa -- bhūta not giving (lit. becoming) an opportunity SnA 573. Elliptically for o. detha Yogāvacara's Man. 4 etc.
-- âdhigama finding an opportunity D ii.214 sq.; A iv. 449. -- kamma giving opportunity or permission Sn p. 94 (˚kata allowed); Pv iv.111 (˚ŋ karoti to give permission). -- matta permission Sn p. 94. -- loka the visible world (= manussa -- loka) Vism 205; VvA 29.
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