जानाति

Pali

Verb

जानाति (Latin script jānāti, Burmese script ဇာနာတိ)

1. to know
2. to understand, comprehend
3. to notice

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Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”), *ǵn̥néh₃-. Cognate with Avestan  (zanąn), Persian شناختن (šenâxtan), Old Persian ... (xšnāsāhiy), Kurdish zanîn, Old Armenian ծան- (can-, “to know”), Old Church Slavonic знати (znati).

Verb

जानाति (jānāti)

1. to know, have knowledge, become acquainted with
2. to perceive, apprehend, understand, experience, recognize, ascertain, investigate
3. to know as, know or perceive that, regard or consider as
4. (with मृषा) to consider as untrue
5. to acknowledge, approve, allow
6. to recognize as one's own, take possession of
7. to visit as a friend
8. to remember
9. to engage in
10. to make known, announce, teach anything
11. to inform any one (with genitive) that
12. to request, ask
13. to wish to know or become acquainted with or learn, investigate, examine
14. to wish for information about
15. to conjecture

Descendants

• Hindi: जानना

References

• Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, page 425