जाति

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit जाति (jātí).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɑː.t̪iː/, [d͡ʒäː.t̪iː]

Noun

जाति • (jāti) f (Urdu spelling جاتی)

  1. birth
  2. caste; subcaste, community; community placed in at birth
  3. high caste
  4. race
  5. (taxonomy) species
  6. tribe, nationality, lineage

Declension

Derived terms

Nepali

Pronunciation

Noun

जाति • (jāti)

  1. ethnic group
  2. race

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

जाति f

  1. Devanagari script form of jāti

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́aHtíṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́áHtiš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (birth, production). Cognate with Latin gēns, Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis), Proto-Germanic *kinþiz. The Sanskrit root is जन् (jan).

Pronunciation

Noun

जाति • (jātí) stem, f

  1. birth, production
  2. rebirth
  3. the form of existence (as man, animal, etc.) fixed by birth
  4. position assigned by birth, rank, caste, family, race, lineage
  5. kind, genus (as opposed to species), species (as opposed to individual), class
  6. the generic properties (as opposed to the specific ones)
  7. the character of a species, genuine or true state of anything
  8. reduction of fractions to a common denominator
  9. a self-confuting reply (founded merely on similarity or dissimilarity)
  10. a particular figure of speech
  11. a class of metres
  12. a manner of singing
  13. fireplace
  14. mace, nutmeg

Declension

Feminine i-stem declension of जाति (jātí)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative जातिः
jātíḥ
जाती
jātī́
जातयः
jātáyaḥ
Vocative जाते
jā́te
जाती
jā́tī
जातयः
jā́tayaḥ
Accusative जातिम्
jātím
जाती
jātī́
जातीः
jātī́ḥ
Instrumental जात्या / जाती¹
jātyā́ / jātī́¹
जातिभ्याम्
jātíbhyām
जातिभिः
jātíbhiḥ
Dative जातये / जात्यै² / जाती¹
jātáye / jātyaí² / jātī́¹
जातिभ्याम्
jātíbhyām
जातिभ्यः
jātíbhyaḥ
Ablative जातेः / जात्याः² / जात्यै³
jātéḥ / jātyā́ḥ² / jātyaí³
जातिभ्याम्
jātíbhyām
जातिभ्यः
jātíbhyaḥ
Genitive जातेः / जात्याः² / जात्यै³
jātéḥ / jātyā́ḥ² / jātyaí³
जात्योः
jātyóḥ
जातीनाम्
jātīnā́m
Locative जातौ / जात्याम्² / जाता¹
jātaú / jātyā́m² / jātā́¹
जात्योः
jātyóḥ
जातिषु
jātíṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic
  • ²Later Sanskrit
  • ³Brāhmaṇas

Borrowed terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “जाति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 418/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 583
  • Milena Hübschmannová (2002 February) “Jati (Caste)”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database, Prague, archived from the original on 19 August 2021
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