Arañña (nt.) [Vedic araṇya; from araṇa, remote, + ya. In the Rig V. araṇya still means remoteness (opp. to amā, at home). In the Ath V. it has come to mean wilderness or forest. Connected with ārād and āre, remote, far from]. forest D i.71; M i.16; iii.104; S i.4, 7, 29, 181, 203 (mahā); A i.60 (˚vanapatthāni); ii.252; iii.135, 138; Sn 39, 53, 119; Dh 99, 329, 330; It 90; Vv 567; Ps i.176. [The commentators, give a wider meaning to the word. Thus the O. C. (Vin iii.46, quoted Vism 72 & SnA 83) says every place, except a village and the approach thereto, is arañña. See also Vin iii.51; DA i.209; PvA 73; VvA 249; J i.149, 215; ii.138; v.70].

-- āyatana a forest haunt Vin ii.201; S ii.269; J i.173; VvA 301; PvA 54, 78, 141. -- kuṭikā a hut in the forest, a forest lodge S i.61; iii.116; iv.116, 380; DhA iv.31 (as v. l.; T. has ˚kuṭi). -- gata gone into the forest (as loneliness) M i.323; A iii.353; v.109 sq., 207, 323 sq. -- ṭhāna a place in the forest J i.253. -- vāsa a dwelling in the forest, a hermitage J i.90. -- vihāra living in (the) loneliness (of the forest) A iii.343 sq.