Linga (nt.) [fr. ling; late Vedic & (pre -- eminently) Class. Sk. linga] 1. characteristic, sign, attribute, mark, feature M i.360; S v.278; Sn 601 sq. (=saṇṭhāna SnA 464); Vin iv.7 (two: hīna & ukkaṭṭha); J i.18; iv.114 (gihi˚), 130; Miln 133 (sāsana˚), 162 (dve samaṇassa lingāni), 405 (lingato ca nimittato ca etc.); Vism 184; DhsA 64 (=saṇṭhāna Tīkā: Expos. 86). -- 2. mark of sex, sexual characteristic, pudendum (male as well as female, as neither m. nor f.) Vin iii.35 (purisa˚); J v.197 (˚saṇṭhāna); KhA 110 (itthi˚); SnA 48 (˚sampatti), 51 (id.), 300 (itthi˚); DhsA 321 sq. (itthi˚). -- 3. (in grammar) mark of sex, (characteristic) ending, gender SnA 397. ˚vipallāsa change or substitution of gender PvA 7, 33, 58, 87, 157.