ग्राम

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɑːm/,

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ग्राम (grāma).

ग्राम • (grām) m (Urdu spelling گرام)

1. village

   Synonym: गाँव (gā̃v)

Borrowed from English gram.

ग्राम • (grām) m (Urdu spelling گرام)

1. gramme

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *grā́mas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *grā́mas, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)gróm-os, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). Cognate with Middle Persian (grāmag, “property, wealth”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɑ́ː.mɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɑː.mɐ/

ग्राम • (grā́ma) stem, m

1. an inhabited place, village, hamlet, settlement
2. the collective inhabitants of place, community, race
3. any number of men associated together, multitude, troop (especially of soldiers)
4. the old women of a family
5. a multitude, class, collection, number
6. a number of tones, scale, gamut
7. indriya
8. inhabitants, people

ग्राम • (grāma) stem, n

1. village
2. flock

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀕𑀸𑀫 (gāma)
  • Prakrit: 𑀕𑀸𑀫 (gāma) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bengali: গাঁ (gā)
• Dardic:
  • Dameli: (gram)
  • Gawar-Bati: (lām)
  • Grangali: (lām)
  • Indus Kohistani: (gā̃)
  • Kalami: (lām)
  • Kalasha: grom
  • Khowar: (gram) (in compounds)
  • Kashmiri: گام (gām)
  • Northeast Pashayi: (lāma)
  • Phalura: (grōm)
  • Savi: (grām)
  • Shina: (gām)
  • Shumashti: (lām)
  • Southeast Pashayi: (lām)
  • Torwali: (gām)
  • Wotapuri-Katarqalai: (gām)
• Pali: gāma
• Old Punjabi:
  • Punjabi: grāṉ (“village”)

    Gurmukhi script: ਗਰਾਂ

    Shahmukhi script: گراں

  • Pahari-Potwari: گراں (grāṉ, “village”)
• → Tamil: கிராமம் (kirāmam)
• → Assamese: গ্ৰাম (gram) (learned)
• → Bengali: গ্রাম (gram) (learned)
  • → Rohingya: gram
• → Hindi: ग्राम (grām) (learned)
• → Kannada: ಗ್ರಾಮ (grāma) (learned)
• → Marathi: ग्राम (grām) (learned)
• → Punjabi: ਗਰਾਮ (garām) (learned)
• → Telugu: గ్రామము (grāmamu) (learned)
• → Bengali: গেরাম (geram) (semi-learned)
• → Sylheti: ꠉꠦꠞꠣꠝ (geram) (semi-learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “ग्राम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0373/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen ‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 507-508
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “grāˊma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press