संज्ञा

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit संज्ञा (saṃjñā́).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /səŋ.ɡjɑː/,

Noun

संज्ञा • (saṅgyā) f (Urdu spelling سنگیا)

1. sense, consciousness

   Synonyms: चैतन्यता (caitanyatā), चेतना (cetnā)

2. knowledge, mind, intellect

   Synonyms: मन (man), ज्ञान (jñān)

3. title, name

   Synonyms: नाम (nām), शीर्षक (śīrṣak)

4. (grammar) noun

   Synonym: (less common) इस्म (ism)

Declension

References

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “संज्ञा”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “संज्ञा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “संज्ञा”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology 1

From सम्- (sam-, “with”) +‎ ज्ञा (jñā, “to know”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐɲd͡ʑ.ɲɑː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɐɲd͡ʑ.ɲɑː/

Root

संज्ञा • (saṃjñā)

1. to agree together, be of the same opinion, be in harmony with
2. to obey
3. to appoint, assign, intend (for any purpose), destine
4. to direct, order, command
5. to acknowledge, recognize, own
6. to acknowledge or claim as one's own, take possession of
7. to think of, recollect sorrowfully
8. to know well, understand
9. to watch for
10. to cause to be of the same opinion or agree together
11. to cause to acquiesce or agree in (euphemistically said of a sacrificial victim, which ought not to be led forcibly to its death but made to resign itself)
12. to appease, satisfy
13. to make to be understood or known, cause to understand
14. to make signs to, communicate or make anything known by signs
15. to command, enjoin, instruct

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the root संज्ञा (saṃjñā) +‎ -आ (-ā).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐɲd͡ʑ.ɲɑ́ː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɐɲd͡ʑ.ɲɑː/

Noun

संज्ञा • (saṃjñā́) stem, f

1. agreement, mutual understanding, harmony
2. consciousness, clear knowledge, understanding, notion, conception
3. a sign, token, signal, gesture
4. direction
5. a track, footstep
6. a name, appellation, title, technical term
7. (grammar) the name of anything thought of as standing by itself, any noun having a special meaning
8. (grammar) a technical expression
9. (Buddhism) perception (one of the 5 skandhas)

Declension

Proper noun

संज्ञा • (saṃjñā) stem, f

1. name of a daughter of tvaṣṭṛ or viśvakarman (the wife of sūrya and mother of manu, yama and yamī)

Declension

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “संज्ञा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1133.