जकार

Sanskrit

Etymology

ज (ja, the letter) +‎ कार (kāra, term designating a letter or sound).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐˈkɑː.ɾɐ/

Noun

जकार • (jakāra) stem, m

1. The name of the Devanagari letter ज (ja).
2. the sound of the ज letter, /d͡ʑɐ/

Inflection

Masculine a-stem declension of जकार
Nom. sg.	जकारः (jakāraḥ)
Gen. sg.	जकारस्य (jakārasya)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	जकारः (jakāraḥ)	जकारौ (jakārau)	जकाराः (jakārāḥ)
Vocative	जकार (jakāra)	जकारौ (jakārau)	जकाराः (jakārāḥ)
Accusative	जकारम् (jakāram)	जकारौ (jakārau)	जकारान् (jakārān)
Instrumental	जकारेन (jakārena)	जकाराभ्याम् (jakārābhyām)	जकारैः (jakāraiḥ)
Dative	जकाराय (jakārāya)	जकाराभ्याम् (jakārābhyām)	जकारेभ्यः (jakārebhyaḥ)
Ablative	जकारात् (jakārāt)	जकाराभ्याम् (jakārābhyām)	जकारेभ्यः (jakārebhyaḥ)
Genitive	जकारस्य (jakārasya)	जकारयोः (jakārayoḥ)	जकारानाम् (jakārānām)
Locative	जकारे (jakāre)	जकारयोः (jakārayoḥ)	जकारेषु (jakāreṣu)

Hypernyms

• तालव्य (tālavya, “palatal”)
• अल्पप्राण (alpaprāṇa, “unaspirated”)

Coordinate terms

palatal letters and sounds

• चकार (cakāra)
• छकार (chakāra)
• झकार (jhakāra)
• ञकार (ñakāra)
• यकार (yakāra)
• शकार (śakāra)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “जकार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0407.