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जाति
जाति
Hindi
Noun
जाति • (jāti) f
- birth
- caste, community; community placed in at birth
- high caste
- race; species
- tribe, nationality, lineage
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Cognates include Ancient Greek γένος (génos), Latin gener, Old Church Slavonic зѧть (zętĭ).
Noun
जाति • (jāti) f
- birth, production
- rebirth
- the form of existence (as man, animal, etc.) fixed by birth
- position assigned by birth, rank, caste, family, race, lineage
- kind, genus (opposed to species), species (opposed to individual), class
- the generic properties (opposed to the specific ones)
- the character of a species, genuine or true state of anything
- reduction of fractions to a common denominator
- a self-confuting reply (founded merely on similarity or dissimilarity)
- a particular figure of speech
- a class of metres
- a manner of singing
- fireplace
- mace, nutmeg
Declension
| Feminine i-stem declension of जाति | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nom. sg. | जातिः (jātiḥ) | ||
| Gen. sg. | जात्याः / जातेः (jātyāḥ / jāteḥ) | ||
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | जातिः (jātiḥ) | जाती (jātī) | जातयः (jātayaḥ) |
| Vocative | जाते (jāte) | जाती (jātī) | जातयः (jātayaḥ) |
| Accusative | जातिम् (jātim) | जाती (jātī) | जातीः (jātīḥ) |
| Instrumental | जात्या (jātyā) | जातिभ्याम् (jātibhyām) | जातिभिः (jātibhiḥ) |
| Dative | जात्यै / जातये (jātyai / jātaye) | जातिभ्याम् (jātibhyām) | जातिभ्यः (jātibhyaḥ) |
| Ablative | जात्याः / जातेः (jātyāḥ / jāteḥ) | जातिभ्याम् (jātibhyām) | जातिभ्यः (jātibhyaḥ) |
| Genitive | जात्याः / जातेः (jātyāḥ / jāteḥ) | जात्योः (jātyoḥ) | जातीनाम् (jātīnām) |
| Locative | जात्याम् / जातौ (jātyām / jātau) | जात्योः (jātyoḥ) | जातिषु (jātiṣu) |