"जन्तु" meaning in Sanskrit

See जन्तु in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /d͡ʑɐn.tú/ [Vedic], /ˈd͡ʑɐn̪.t̪u/ [Classical-Sanskrit]
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ĵantúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́antúš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎 (zantu). Etymology templates: {{inh|sa|inc-pro|*ĵantúṣ}} Proto-Indo-Aryan *ĵantúṣ, {{inh|sa|iir-pro|*ȷ́antúš}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́antúš, {{der|sa|ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-|t=to produce, give birth}} Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth”), {{cog|ae|𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎}} Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎 (zantu) Head templates: {{sa-noun|g=m|tr=jantú}} जन्तु • (jantú) stem, m Inflection templates: {{sa-decl-noun-m|jantú}} Forms: jantú [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], जन्तुः [nominative, singular], जन्तू [dual, nominative], जन्तवः [nominative, plural], जन्तो [singular, vocative], जन्तू [dual, vocative], जन्तवः [plural, vocative], जन्तुम् [accusative, singular], जन्तू [accusative, dual], जन्तून् [accusative, plural], जन्तुना [instrumental, singular], जन्त्वा1 [instrumental, singular], जन्तुभ्याम् [dual, instrumental], जन्तुभिः [instrumental, plural], जन्तवे [dative, singular], जन्तुभ्याम् [dative, dual], जन्तुभ्यः [dative, plural], जन्तोः [ablative, singular], जन्तुभ्याम् [ablative, dual], जन्तुभ्यः [ablative, plural], जन्तोः [genitive, singular], जन्त्वोः [dual, genitive], जन्तूनाम् [genitive, plural], जन्तौ [locative, singular], जन्त्वोः [dual, locative], जन्तुषु [locative, plural]
  1. child, offspring
    Sense id: en-जन्तु-sa-noun-pFADuiMn
  2. person, creature, living being
    Sense id: en-जन्तु-sa-noun-dkIr05jH
  3. insect, worm or any animal of the lowest order of classification Categories (lifeform): Animals
    Sense id: en-जन्तु-sa-noun-X5udwJ0C Disambiguation of Animals: 28 21 51 Categories (other): Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header, Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header: 27 18 55 Disambiguation of Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 17 13 70
     
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mr",
            "2": "जंत"
          },
          "expansion": "Marathi: जंत (janta)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Marathi: जंत (janta)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ta",
            "2": "ஜந்து",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Tamil: ஜந்து (jantu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Tamil: ஜந்து (jantu)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "inc-pro",
        "3": "*ĵantúṣ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Aryan *ĵantúṣ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "iir-pro",
        "3": "*ȷ́antúš"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́antúš",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ǵenh₁-",
        "t": "to produce, give birth"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ae",
        "2": "𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎"
      },
      "expansion": "Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎 (zantu)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ĵantúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́antúš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎 (zantu).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jantú",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sa-decl-noun-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "u-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुः",
      "roman": "jantúḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तू",
      "roman": "jantū́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तवः",
      "roman": "jantávaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तो",
      "roman": "jánto",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तू",
      "roman": "jántū",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तवः",
      "roman": "jántavaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुम्",
      "roman": "jantúm",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तू",
      "roman": "jantū́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तून्",
      "roman": "jantū́n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुना",
      "roman": "jantúnā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्त्वा1",
      "roman": "jantvā́1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jantúbhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभिः",
      "roman": "jantúbhiḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तवे",
      "roman": "jantáve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jantúbhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्यः",
      "roman": "jantúbhyaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तोः",
      "roman": "jantóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jantúbhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्यः",
      "roman": "jantúbhyaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तोः",
      "roman": "jantóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्त्वोः",
      "roman": "jantvóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तूनाम्",
      "roman": "jantūnā́m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तौ",
      "roman": "jantaú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्त्वोः",
      "roman": "jantvóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुषु",
      "roman": "jantúṣu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "tr": "jantú"
      },
      "expansion": "जन्तु • (jantú) stem, m",
      "name": "sa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jantú"
      },
      "name": "sa-decl-noun-m"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Sanskrit",
  "lang_code": "sa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "child, offspring"
      ],
      "id": "en-जन्तु-sa-noun-pFADuiMn",
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "person, creature, living being"
      ],
      "id": "en-जन्तु-sa-noun-dkIr05jH",
      "links": [
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "creature",
          "creature"
        ],
        [
          "living",
          "living"
        ],
        [
          "being",
          "being"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 18 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 13 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 21 51",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "sa",
          "name": "Animals",
          "orig": "sa:Animals",
          "parents": [
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "insect, worm or any animal of the lowest order of classification"
      ],
      "id": "en-जन्तु-sa-noun-X5udwJ0C",
      "links": [
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "worm",
          "worm"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "lowest",
          "lowest"
        ],
        [
          "order",
          "order"
        ],
        [
          "classification",
          "classification"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʑɐn.tú/",
      "tags": [
        "Vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʑɐn̪.t̪u/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Sanskrit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "जन्तु"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header",
    "Sanskrit lemmas",
    "Sanskrit masculine nouns",
    "Sanskrit nouns",
    "Sanskrit nouns in Devanagari script",
    "Sanskrit terms derived from Proto-Indo-Aryan",
    "Sanskrit terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Sanskrit terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
    "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan",
    "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
    "Sanskrit terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Sanskrit u-stem nouns",
    "sa:Animals"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mr",
            "2": "जंत"
          },
          "expansion": "Marathi: जंत (janta)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Marathi: जंत (janta)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ta",
            "2": "ஜந்து",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Tamil: ஜந்து (jantu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Tamil: ஜந்து (jantu)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "inc-pro",
        "3": "*ĵantúṣ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Aryan *ĵantúṣ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "iir-pro",
        "3": "*ȷ́antúš"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́antúš",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ǵenh₁-",
        "t": "to produce, give birth"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ae",
        "2": "𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎"
      },
      "expansion": "Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎 (zantu)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ĵantúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́antúš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬎 (zantu).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jantú",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sa-decl-noun-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "u-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुः",
      "roman": "jantúḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तू",
      "roman": "jantū́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तवः",
      "roman": "jantávaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तो",
      "roman": "jánto",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तू",
      "roman": "jántū",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तवः",
      "roman": "jántavaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुम्",
      "roman": "jantúm",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तू",
      "roman": "jantū́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तून्",
      "roman": "jantū́n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुना",
      "roman": "jantúnā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्त्वा1",
      "roman": "jantvā́1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jantúbhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभिः",
      "roman": "jantúbhiḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तवे",
      "roman": "jantáve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jantúbhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्यः",
      "roman": "jantúbhyaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तोः",
      "roman": "jantóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jantúbhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुभ्यः",
      "roman": "jantúbhyaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तोः",
      "roman": "jantóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्त्वोः",
      "roman": "jantvóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तूनाम्",
      "roman": "jantūnā́m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तौ",
      "roman": "jantaú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्त्वोः",
      "roman": "jantvóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जन्तुषु",
      "roman": "jantúṣu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "tr": "jantú"
      },
      "expansion": "जन्तु • (jantú) stem, m",
      "name": "sa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jantú"
      },
      "name": "sa-decl-noun-m"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Sanskrit",
  "lang_code": "sa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "child, offspring"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "person, creature, living being"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "creature",
          "creature"
        ],
        [
          "living",
          "living"
        ],
        [
          "being",
          "being"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "insect, worm or any animal of the lowest order of classification"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "worm",
          "worm"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "lowest",
          "lowest"
        ],
        [
          "order",
          "order"
        ],
        [
          "classification",
          "classification"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʑɐn.tú/",
      "tags": [
        "Vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʑɐn̪.t̪u/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Sanskrit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "जन्तु"
}

Download raw JSONL data for जन्तु meaning in Sanskrit (5.7kB)

{
  "called_from": "inflection/2466",
  "msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Sanskrit]; cleaned text: Notes",
  "path": [
    "जन्तु"
  ],
  "section": "Sanskrit",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "जन्तु",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Sanskrit dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.