"जानु" meaning in Sanskrit

See जानु in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /d͡ʑɑ́ː.nu/ [Vedic], /d͡ʑɑː.n̪u/ [Classical-Sanskrit]
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu (“knee”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”). Cognate with Old Armenian ծունգք (cungkʻ), Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), Latin genu (“knee”), Avestan 𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬎 (zānu), Persian زانو (zânu), Old English cnēow (whence English knee)). Etymology templates: {{dercat|sa|inc-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|sa|iir-pro|*ȷ́ā́nu||knee}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu (“knee”), {{inh|sa|ine-pro|*ǵónu||knee}} Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”), {{cog|xcl|ծունգք}} Old Armenian ծունգք (cungkʻ), {{cog|grc|γόνυ||knee}} Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), {{cog|la|genu||knee}} Latin genu (“knee”), {{cog|ae|𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬎}} Avestan 𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬎 (zānu), {{cog|fa|زانو|tr=zânu}} Persian زانو (zânu), {{cog|ang|cnēow}} Old English cnēow, {{cog|en|knee}} English knee Head templates: {{sa-noun|g=n|tr=jā́nu}} जानु • (jā́nu) stem, n Inflection templates: {{sa-decl-noun-n|jā́nu}} Forms: jā́nu [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], जानु [nominative, singular], जानुनी [dual, nominative], जानूनि [nominative, plural], जानु1 [nominative, plural], जानू1 [nominative, plural], जानु [accusative, singular], जानुनी [accusative, dual], जानूनि [accusative, plural], जानु1 [accusative, plural], जानू1 [accusative, plural], जानुना [instrumental, singular], जान्वा1 [instrumental, singular], जानुभ्याम् [dual, instrumental], जानुभिः [instrumental, plural], जानुने [dative, singular], जानवे1 [dative, singular], जान्वे1 [dative, singular], जानुभ्याम् [dative, dual], जानुभ्यः [dative, plural], जानुनः [ablative, singular], जानोः1 [ablative, singular], जान्वः1 [ablative, singular], जानुभ्याम् [ablative, dual], जानुभ्यः [ablative, plural], जानुनः [genitive, singular], जानोः1 [genitive, singular], जान्वः1 [genitive, singular], जानुनोः [dual, genitive], जान्वोः1 [dual, genitive], जानूनाम् [genitive, plural], जानुनि [locative, singular], जानौ1 [locative, singular], जानुनोः [dual, locative], जान्वोः1 [dual, locative], जानुषु [locative, plural], जानु [singular, vocative], जानो [singular, vocative], जानुनी [dual, vocative], जानूनि [plural, vocative], जानु1 [plural, vocative], जानू1 [plural, vocative]
  1. (anatomy) knee Related terms: ज्ञु (jñú, zero-grade)
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          "expansion": "→ Telugu: జానువు (jānuvu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Telugu: జానువు (jānuvu)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "inc-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "iir-pro",
        "3": "*ȷ́ā́nu",
        "4": "",
        "5": "knee"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu (“knee”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ǵónu",
        "4": "",
        "5": "knee"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xcl",
        "2": "ծունգք"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Armenian ծունգք (cungkʻ)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "γόνυ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "knee"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "genu",
        "3": "",
        "4": "knee"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin genu (“knee”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ae",
        "2": "𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬎"
      },
      "expansion": "Avestan 𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬎 (zānu)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "زانو",
        "tr": "zânu"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian زانو (zânu)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "cnēow"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English cnēow",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "knee"
      },
      "expansion": "English knee",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu (“knee”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).\nCognate with Old Armenian ծունգք (cungkʻ), Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), Latin genu (“knee”), Avestan 𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬎 (zānu), Persian زانو (zânu), Old English cnēow (whence English knee)).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jā́nu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sa-decl-noun-n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानु",
      "roman": "jā́nu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनी",
      "roman": "jā́nunī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानूनि",
      "roman": "jā́nūni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानु1",
      "roman": "jā́nu1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानू1",
      "roman": "jā́nū1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानु",
      "roman": "jā́nu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनी",
      "roman": "jā́nunī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानूनि",
      "roman": "jā́nūni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानु1",
      "roman": "jā́nu1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानू1",
      "roman": "jā́nū1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुना",
      "roman": "jā́nunā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जान्वा1",
      "roman": "jā́nvā1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jā́nubhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुभिः",
      "roman": "jā́nubhiḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुने",
      "roman": "jā́nune",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानवे1",
      "roman": "jā́nave1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जान्वे1",
      "roman": "jā́nve1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jā́nubhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुभ्यः",
      "roman": "jā́nubhyaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनः",
      "roman": "jā́nunaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानोः1",
      "roman": "jā́noḥ1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जान्वः1",
      "roman": "jā́nvaḥ1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुभ्याम्",
      "roman": "jā́nubhyām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुभ्यः",
      "roman": "jā́nubhyaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनः",
      "roman": "jā́nunaḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानोः1",
      "roman": "jā́noḥ1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जान्वः1",
      "roman": "jā́nvaḥ1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनोः",
      "roman": "jā́nunoḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जान्वोः1",
      "roman": "jā́nvoḥ1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानूनाम्",
      "roman": "jā́nūnām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनि",
      "roman": "jā́nuni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानौ1",
      "roman": "jā́nau1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनोः",
      "roman": "jā́nunoḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जान्वोः1",
      "roman": "jā́nvoḥ1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुषु",
      "roman": "jā́nuṣu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानु",
      "roman": "jā́nu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानो",
      "roman": "jā́no",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानुनी",
      "roman": "jā́nunī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानूनि",
      "roman": "jā́nūni",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानु1",
      "roman": "jā́nu1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "जानू1",
      "roman": "jā́nū1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "n",
        "tr": "jā́nu"
      },
      "expansion": "जानु • (jā́nu) stem, n",
      "name": "sa-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jā́nu"
      },
      "name": "sa-decl-noun-n"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Sanskrit",
  "lang_code": "sa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "jñú, zero-grade",
      "word": "ज्ञु"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header",
        "Sanskrit lemmas",
        "Sanskrit links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Sanskrit neuter 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-European",
        "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
        "Sanskrit terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Sanskrit terms with quotations",
        "Sanskrit u-stem nouns",
        "sa:Anatomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Bowing your bended knees and seated southward, accept this sacrifice of ours with favour.\nPunish us not for any sin, O Fathers, which we through human frailty have committed.",
          "ref": "c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.15.6",
          "roman": "mā hiṃsiṣṭa pitaraḥ kena cinno yadva āgaḥ puruṣatā karāma.",
          "text": "आच्या जानु दक्षिणतो निषद्येमं यज्ञमभि गृणीत विश्वे ।\nमा हिंसिष्ट पितरः केन चिन्नो यद्व आगः पुरुषता कराम ॥\nācyā jānu dakṣiṇato niṣadyemaṃ yajñamabhi gṛṇīta viśve."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "knee"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "knee",
          "knee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) knee"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʑɑ́ː.nu/",
      "tags": [
        "Vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʑɑː.n̪u/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Sanskrit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "जानु"
}

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