जाति

Borrowed from Sanskrit जा॒ति (jātí).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑː.t̪iː/,

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

• जातिगत (jātigat)
• जातिवाद (jātivād)
• जाति ना पूछो साधु की; पूछ लीजिए ज्ञान (jāti nā pūcho sādhu kī; pūch lījie jñān)

Borrowed from Sanskrit जा॒ति (jātí).

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: जाति

जाति • (jāti)

1. ethnic group
2. race

जाति f

1. Devanagari script form of jāti

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁-ti-s ~ *ǵn̥h₁-téy-s (“birth, production; kind”). Cognate with Latin gēns, Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis), Proto-Germanic *kinþiz (whence English kind). By surface analysis, from the root जन् (jan) +‎ -ति (-ti).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɑː.tí/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɑː.t̪i/

जा॒ति • (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

• Pali: jāti
• Prakrit: 𑀚𑀸𑀇 (jāi)

Borrowed terms

• Monier Williams (1899) “जाति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 418/1.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “jāti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 285
• Milena Hübschmannová (February 2002) “Jati (Caste)”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, Prague, archived from the original on 19 August 2021