जन्
Sanskrit edit
Alternative forms edit
- जा (jā)
Alternative scripts edit
Alternative scripts
- জন্ (Assamese script)
- ᬚᬦ᭄ (Balinese script)
- জন্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰕𑰡𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀚𑀦𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- ဇန် (Burmese script)
- જન્ (Gujarati script)
- ਜਨ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌜𑌨𑍍 (Grantha script)
- ꦗꦤ꧀ (Javanese script)
- 𑂔𑂢𑂹 (Kaithi script)
- ಜೝ (Kannada script)
- ជន៑ (Khmer script)
- ຊນ຺ (Lao script)
- ജന് (Malayalam script)
- ᡯᠠᠨ (Manchu script)
- 𑘕𑘡𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᠽᠠᠨ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦵𑧁𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐖𑐣𑑂 (Newa script)
- ଜନ୍ (Odia script)
- ꢙꢥ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆘𑆤𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖕𑖡𑖿 (Siddham script)
- ජන් (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩣𑩯 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚑𑚝𑚶 (Takri script)
- ஜந் (Tamil script)
- జౝ (Telugu script)
- ชนฺ (Thai script)
- ཛ་ན྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒖𑒢𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨥𑨝𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”). Compare Latin gignō, genus, Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai), English kind.
Pronunciation edit
Root edit
जन् • (jan)
- (sa, Class 1) to generate, beget, produce, create, cause.
- (sa, Class 4) to be born or produced, come into existence.
Derived terms edit
Primary Verbal Forms
Secondary Forms
Non-Finite Forms
Derived Nominal Forms
- आजान (ājā́na, “birth, descent, birthplace”)
- आजानि (ājā́ni, “birth, descent”)
- जन (jána, “person, people, race; generating”)
- जनक (janaká, “progenitor”)
- ज (já, “son of; father; birth”)
- जा (jā́, “race, tribe”)
- जास् (jā́s, “offspring”)
- जाति (jāti, “birth, family, species, breed”)
- जात (jātá, “son; birth; origin; race; genus”)
- जान (jā́na, “birth, origin, birthplace”)
- जानि (jā́ni, “birth, descent”)
- जनि (jáni, “birth, production, birthplace”)
- जनी (jánī, “birth, birthplace; daughter-in-law”)
- जन्तु (jantú, “offspring, kinsman”)
- जन्यु (janyu, “birth, creature”)
- जन्य (jánya, “people, community, nation”)
- जनुस् (janús, janū́s, “birth, production, descent, nativity; genus, class, kind”)
- जनुषा (januṣā, “necessarily, essentially, originally, by birth”)
- जनू (janū́, “birth, descent”)
- जनु (janu, “soul”)
- जेन्य (jénya, “of noble origin; genuine”)
- जातु (jā́tu, jātú, “at all, ever, perhaps”)
- जात्य (jā́tya, “legitimate; of a good family”)
- जनता (janátā, “people, folk; generation”)
- जनन (jánana, “progenitor, production, birth, race”)
- जज्ञि (jájñi, “germinating, shooting; seed”)
- जन्मिन् (janmin, “creature”)
- जानुका (jā́nukā, “bringing forth; woman”)
- जानपद (jā́napada, “inhabitant of a country, subject”)
- जनपद (janapadá, “community, nation, people; empire”)
- जना (janā, “birth, origin”)
- जननी (jananī, “mother”)
- जनितृ (janitṛ́, jánitṛ, “progenitor”)
- जनित्र (janítra, “home, origin, birthplace”)
- जनिमन् (jániman, “generation, birth, origin; offspring; creature; genus”)
- जन्म (janmá, “birth”)
- जन्मन् (jánman, “production, existence, nativity”)
- जाया (jāyā́, “bringing forth; wife”)
- जास्पति (jā́spáti, jā́spati, “head of a family”)
- जावन् (jā́van, “born, produced”)
References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “जन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 410.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 52
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 567-8