ʒanel
Romani edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀚𑀸𑀡𑀤𑀺 (jāṇadi), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀚𑀸𑀦𑀢𑀺 (jānati), from Sanskrit जानाति (jānā́ti). Cognates include Hindi जानना (jānnā).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ʒanel
- (International Standard) to know
- Voj na ʒanel so te del dùma. ― She doesn't know what to say.
- Tu ʒanes la? ― Do you know her?
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: gini (“to notice, to observe, to pay attention to”)
References edit
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “džanél”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 82
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ʒan/el, -dǎs”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 386