जीर्ण

• जूर्ण (jūrṇa)

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nó-s, from *ǵerh₂- (“to grow old, mature”). Doublet of जूर्ण (jūrṇá).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑiːɾ.ɳɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʑiːɾ.ɳɐ/

जीर्ण • (jīrṇá) stem

1. old, aged
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 10.8.27:

     त्वं स्त्री त्वं पुमान् असि त्वं कुमार उत वा कुमारी॥
     त्वं जीर्णो दण्डेन वञ्चसि त्वं जातो भवसि विश्वतोमुखः ॥

     tvaṃ strī tvaṃ pumān asi tvaṃ kumāra uta vā kumārī.
     tvaṃ jīrṇo daṇḍena vañcasi tvaṃ jāto bhavasi viśvatomukhaḥ.

     (O Supreme Being) You are a woman, and a man; you are a maiden and a boy.
     Grown old, you totter with a staff, new-born you look every way.

   • c. 800 CE, Śankarācāryaḥ, Commentary to the Bhagavad-Gītā 2.22:

     वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरो ऽपराणि
     तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्य् अन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही

     vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛhṇāti naro ʼparāṇi
     tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny anyāni saṃyāti navāni dehī

     As old clothes are cast away and new ones are in its turn grabbed by man
     So old bodies are cast (by a soul) going to a new body

2. worn out, decayed

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀚𑀺𑀡𑁆𑀡 (jiṇṇa)

जीर्ण • (jīrṇá) stem, m

1. an old man, a whitebeard
2. old age, senectude
3. digestion

• (old): सन (sana), लाट (lāṭa), जर (jara), स्थविर (sthavira)
• (old man): वृद्ध (vṛddha), जुर् (jur), शतानीक (śatānīka), स्थविर (sthavira)
• (worn out): जिव्रि (jivri), निरमण (niramaṇa), प्रहीण (prahīṇa), क्षित (kṣita)

• अजीर्ण (ajīrṇa)
• जीर्णात्व (jīrṇātva, “infirmity, decay”)
• जीर्णाता (jīrṇātā, “old age”)
• जीर्णावाटिका (jīrṇāvāṭikā, “a ruined house”)
• परिजीर्ण (parijīrṇa, “worn out”)

• ⇒ Telugu: జీర్ణించు (jīrṇiñcu)

• “जीर्ण॑” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 186, column 2.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “जीर्ण”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 101
• Monier Williams (1899) “Jīrṇá”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 422/2.