जानाति

जानाति (jānāti)

1. Devanagari script form of jānāti

• जानीते (jānīte) — ātmanepada

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́ānáHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ānáHti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti (“to know”), from *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (zānaⁱti), Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎴𐎠𐎿𐎠𐏃𐎹 (x-š-n-a-s-a-h-y /⁠xšnāsāhiy⁠/), Old Church Slavonic знати (znati), Russian знать (znatʹ), Old English cnāwan (whence English know).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɑː.nɑ́ː.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɑː.n̪ɑː.t̪i/

जानाति • (jānā́ti) third-singular indicative (class 9, type P, present, root ज्ञा)

1. to know, have knowledge, become acquainted with
2. to perceive, apprehend, understand, experience, recognize, ascertain, investigate
3. to know as, know or perceive that, regard or consider as
   1. (with मृषा (mṛṣā)) to consider as untrue
4. to acknowledge, approve, allow
5. to recognize as one's own, take possession of
6. to visit as a friend
7. to remember
8. to engage in
9. to make known, announce, teach anything
10. to inform any one (with genitive) that
11. to request, ask
12. to wish to know or become acquainted with or learn, investigate, examine
13. to wish for information about
14. to conjecture

• Monier Williams (1899) “ज्ञा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 425, column 2.