जन्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
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

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”). Compare Latin gignō, genus, Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai), English kind.

Pronunciation

Root

जन् • (jan)

  1. (sa, Class 1) to generate, beget, produce, create, cause.
  2. (sa, Class 4) to be born or produced, come into existence.

Derived terms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root जन्‎ (0 c, 11 e)
Primary Verbal Forms
Secondary Forms
  • जन्यते (janyáte, Passive)
  • अजनि (ájani, Passive Aorist)
  • जनयति (janáyati, Causative)
  • अजीजनत् (ájījanat, Causative Aorist)
  • जिजनिषति (jijaniṣati, Desiderative)
  • जञ्जन्यते (jañjanyate, Intensive)
  • जाजायते (jājāyate, Intensive)
Non-Finite Forms
  • जनितुम् (jánitum, Infinitive)
  • जनितोस् (jánitos, Infinitive)
  • जनित्वा (janitvā́, Gerund)
  • जात (jātá, Past Participle)
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
  • 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]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 567-8
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