➥ kovida:

• for kovida:
  • expert
  • knowledgeable
  • proficient [in discerning]
  • proficient
• for akovida:
  • ignorant
• kovida
• kovidā: experts; knowledgeable; proficient [in discerning]
• kovidaṁ: knowledgeable
• kovido: knowledgeable; proficient [in discerning]
• akovido: ignorant
• akovidā: ignorant
• akovide: ignorant

➥ kovidā: (main article see: kovida)

Illustration: kovidā, experts

Experts in body marks and conformations (i.e. physiognomists)

vyañjananimittakovidā. (DN iii 152)

Illustration: kovidā, knowledgeable

Knowledgeable about the fruit of conduct

kammavipākakovidā. (Snp 653)

The enlightenened, those knowledgeable about merit, praise this kind of sacrifice.

Yañña metaṁ pasaṁsanti buddhā puññassa kovidā. (AN ii 44)

Illustration: na… kovidā, ignorant

I do not approve of their teachings; they are ignorant of the Buddha’s teaching.

na tesaṁ dhammaṁ rocemi na te dhammassa kovidā. (SN i 133)

Illustration: kovidā, proficient [in discerning]

Proficient [in discerning] the ways of others’ minds.

cetopariyāyakovidā. (SN i 146)

➥ kovidaṁ: (main article see: kovida)

Illustration: kovidaṁ, knowledgeable

One who is knowledgeable about birth and death

jātimaraṇakovidaṁ. (Snp 484)

Knowledgeable about what is the Path and what is not the Path

maggāmaggassa kovidaṁ. (MN ii 196)

➥ kovido: (main article see: kovida)

Illustration: kovido, knowledgeable

Our teacher is knowledgeable about the Deathless.

satthā no amatassa kovido. (Tha 21)

He is knowledgeable about the path to safety from [the danger of] bondage [to individual existence].

So yogakkhemassa pathassa kovido ti. (Tha 69)

The Blessed One is the knower of the Path, the finder of the Path, knowledgeable about the Path.

maggaññu maggavidū maggakovido. (MN iii 8)

Knowledgeable about the teaching of spiritually outstanding people

sappurisadhammassa kovido. (MN i 135)

Knowledgeable about the aspects of an offence and its removal

Āpattivuṭṭhānapadassa kovido. (Vin.1.359)

Illustration: kovido, proficient [in discerning]

One who is proficient [in discerning] the telltale signs of the mind.

Cittanimittassa kovido. (Tha 85)

Illustration: kovido, proficient

I am a master of the three final knowledges. I am an outstanding meditator, proficient in [attaining] inward calm.

Tevijjohaṁ mahājhāyī cetosamathakovido. (Tha 112)

Then he, proficient and knowledgeable in questions, asked me [the Boy’s] Questions.

Tato pañhe apucchi maṁ pañhānaṁ kovido vidū. (Tha 482)

Proficient in the use of conventional expressions and vocabulary

niruttipadakovido. (Tha 1028)

Proficient in analysis

vibhaṅgakovido. (Vin.1.359)

Proficient at obstructing his opponents

Paccatthikānañca visandhikovido. (Vin.1.359)

➥ akovido: (main article see: kovida)

Illustration: akovido, ignorant

The ignorant Everyman, who has no regard for the Noble Ones and is ignorant of and uninstructed in their teaching

assutavā puthujjano ariyānaṁ adassāvī ariyadhammassa akovido ariyadhamme avinīto. (SN iv 286-7)

➥ akovidā: (main article see: kovida)

Illustration: akovidā, ignorant

But simpletons ignorant of the teaching do not understand it even in its presence.

Santike na vijānanti magā dhammassa akovidā. (SN iv 128)

➥ akovide: (main article see: kovida)

Illustration: akovide, ignorant

The fire of undiscernment of reality burns those who are undiscerning of reality, who are ignorant of the noble teaching.

mohaggi pana sammūḷhe ariyadhamme akovide. (Iti 92)

Illustration: akovidā, ignorant

Those people are ignorant of the teaching who think he is a fool, the one who is a healer of both himself and the other.

Ubhinnaṁ tikicchantaṁ taṁ attano ca parassa ca
Janā maññanti bālo ti ye dhammassa akovidā. (Tha 444)