Hindi

Interjection

जय • ‎(jay)

1. hail, glory

   जय राम!‎ ― jay rām! ― Hail Ram!

Sanskrit

Etymology

From the root जयति ‎(jayati, “to conquer, defeat, vanquish”).

Adjective

जय • ‎(jayá)

1. (at the end of a compound) conquering, winning

Compounds

• ऋतंजय ‎(ṛtáṃ-jaya)
• कृतंजय ‎(kṛtáṃ-jaya)
• धनंजय ‎(dhánaṃ-jayá)
• पुरंजय ‎(puraṃ-jaya)
• शल्रुंजय ‎(śalruṃ-jaya)

Noun

जय • ‎(jayá) m

1. conquest, victory, triumph, winning, being victorious (in battle or in playing with dice or in a lawsuit)
2. (in the plural, paroxytone) name of particular verses causing victory (personified as deities)
3. Premna spinosa or Premna longifolia
4. a yellow variety of Vigna mungo ( <= Phaseolus mungo)
5. name of the 3rd year of the 6th lustrum of the bṛhaspati cycle
6. (music) a kind of flute
7. (music) a kind of measure
8. the sun
9. Arjuna
10. Indra
11. name of a rishi (author of RV. x, 180 ; son of Angiras or of Indra; living under the 10th manu)
12. name of a spirit
13. name of an attendant of Vishnu
14. name of a Nāga
15. name of a Danava
16. name of a son
17. name of an ancient king (11th cakravartin in Bharata)
18. name of a Pandava hero
19. name of a Yudhisthira at Virata's court
20. name of Aśoka in a former birth
21. name of a carpenter
22. Terminalia chebula
23. नीलदूर्वा ‎(nīla-dūrvā)
24. for जपा ‎(japā)
25. name of a narcotic substance
26. the 3rd or 8th or 13th day of either half-month
27. one of the 7 flag-sticks of Indra's banner
28. name of the saurā dharmāḥ
29. name of Durga
30. name of a daughter of Dakṣa
31. name of yoginī
32. name of Śakti
33. name of a handmaid of Durga
34. name of a Buddhist deity (= Tārā)
35. of the mother of the 12th arhat of the present Avsarpini

Declension

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0412