Hindi edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

Pronunciation edit

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ɡəd͡ʒ/, [ɡɐd͡ʒ]

Noun edit

गज (gajm (Urdu spelling گج)

  1. elephant
    Synonym: हाथी (hāthī)

Declension edit

Old Gujarati edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

Noun edit

गज (gajam

  1. elephant

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

गज m

  1. Devanagari script form of gaja (elephant)

Declension edit

Rajasthani edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

Noun edit

गज (gajm

  1. elephant

Synonyms edit

Further reading edit

  • Bhanwar Lal Suthar and Sukhveer Singh Gahlot (1998), Rajasthani-Hindi-English Dictionary, page 80. Jodhpur: Bharat Printers (Press).

Sanskrit edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Of uncertain, possibly substrate, origin.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

गज (gaja) stemm

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: हस्तिन् (hastin), नाग (nāga), कुञ्जर (kuñjara)
  2. (chaturanga) gaja, a chaturanga piece ancestral to the bishop in chess
    1. (chess) bishop

Declension edit

Masculine a-stem declension of गज
Nom. sg. गजः (gajaḥ)
Gen. sg. गजस्य (gajasya)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative गजः (gajaḥ) गजौ (gajau) गजाः (gajāḥ)
Vocative गज (gaja) गजौ (gajau) गजाः (gajāḥ)
Accusative गजम् (gajam) गजौ (gajau) गजान् (gajān)
Instrumental गजेन (gajena) गजाभ्याम् (gajābhyām) गजैः (gajaiḥ)
Dative गजाय (gajāya) गजाभ्याम् (gajābhyām) गजेभ्यः (gajebhyaḥ)
Ablative गजात् (gajāt) गजाभ्याम् (gajābhyām) गजेभ्यः (gajebhyaḥ)
Genitive गजस्य (gajasya) गजयोः (gajayoḥ) गजानाम् (gajānām)
Locative गजे (gaje) गजयोः (gajayoḥ) गजेषु (gajeṣu)

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024), “gaja”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “gaja- - ganá-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 458