गति

Borrowed from Sanskrit गति (gati).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɡə.t̪iː/, [ɡɐ.t̪iː]

गति • (gati) f (Urdu spelling گتی)

1. motion

   हमें इस योजना को गति देने की आवश्यकता है।

   hamẽ is yojnā ko gati dene kī āvaśyaktā hai.

   We must set this plan in motion.

2. speed

   उसने पूरी गति से दीवार मारा।

   usne pūrī gati se dīvār mārā.

   He hit the wall at full speed.

3. plight

   तुम्हारी वही गति होगी जो चोर की हुई थी।

   tumhārī vahī gati hogī jo cor kī huī thī.

   You will meet the plight of a thief.

• (motion, speed): रफ़्तार (raftār)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “गति”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *gátiš (“going, motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḿ̥tis. Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬡𐬌-𐬔𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (aⁱβi-gaⁱti), Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), Proto-Germanic *kumþiz. By surface analysis, गम् (gam, “to go”) +‎ -ति (-ti).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɐ́.ti/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ.t̪i/

गति • (gáti) stem, f

1. going, moving, gait, deportment, motion in general
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.64.3:

     यन्नूनमश्यां गतिं मित्रस्य यायां पथा ।
     अस्य प्रियस्य शर्मण्यहिंसानस्य सश्चिरे ॥

     yannūnamaśyāṃ gatiṃ mitrasya yāyāṃ pathā.
     asya priyasya śarmaṇyahiṃsānasya saścire.

     That I may gain a refuge now, may my steps be on Mitra's path.
     Men go protected in the charge of this dear Friend who harms us not.

   • c. 150 CE – 250 CE, Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 2.18:

     यद् एव गमनं गन्ता स एवेति न युज्यते ।
     अन्य एव पुनर् गन्ता गतेर् इति न युज्यते ॥

     yad eva gamanaṃ gantā sa eveti na yujyate.
     anya eva punar gantā gater iti na yujyate.

     It is improper (to think) that the going and the goer are exactly the same.
     It is improper still (to think) that the goer is something other than the going.

2. manner or power of going
3. procession, march, passage, procedure, progress, movement
4. path, way, course
5. place of issue, origin, reason
6. possibility, expedient, means
7. means of success
8. way or art, method of acting
9. refuge, resource
10. the position (of a child at birth)
11. state, condition, situation, proportion, mode of existence
12. a happy issue; happiness
13. the course of the soul through numerous forms of life, metempsychosis, condition of a person undergoing this migration
14. manner
15. the being understood or meant
16. (grammar) a term for prepositions and some other adverbial prefixes when immediately connected with the tenses of a verb or with verbal derivatives
17. a kind of rhetorical figure
18. a particular high number
19. Motion (personified as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Pulaha)

• गत (gata)
• गच्छति (gacchati)
• गम् (gam)

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀕𑀇 (gaï)
• Pali: gati
  • → Khmer: គតិ (kĕəʼteʼ)
  • → Burmese: ဂတိ (ga.ti.)
  • → Thai: คติ (ká-dtì)
• → Bengali: গতি (gotoi)
• → Hindi: गति (gati)
• → Kannada: ಗತಿ (gati)
• → Marathi: गती (gatī)
• → Tamil: கதி (kati)
• → Telugu: గతి (gati)

• Monier Williams (1899) “गति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 347/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 459