जा

जा (ja) (Latin script ja)

1. to eat
2. to have a meal

• IPA^(key): /d͡zɐ/

जा (transliteration needed)

1. utensil

• Wilde, Christopher P. (2016), “जा”, in Gamale Kham Phonology Revisited, with Devanagari-based Orthography and Lexicon, Asia-Pacific Linguistics

From Ashokan Prakrit 𑀬𑀸𑀢𑀺 (yāti), from Sanskrit याति (yāti). Cognates include Hindi जाना (jānā) and Nepali जानु (jānu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑ/

जा (jā)

1. (intransitive) to go
2. (auxiliary) Used to mark that an action is slightly unexpected.

• Anoop Chandra Chandola (1966), A Synthatic Sketch of Garhwali, University of Chicago press (PhD thesis), page 2

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑː/, [d͡ʒäː]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

जा • (jā)

1. inflection of जाना (jānā):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular present imperative

Inherited from Prakrit जाउ f (jāu), from Sanskrit यातृ (yātṛ) (genitive यातुः (yātuḥ)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyaHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yénh₂tēr ~ h₁yn̥h₂trés. Cognate with Bengali জা (ja), Konkani जाव (jāv), and Marathi जाऊ (jāū). Through Indo-European, cognate with Old Armenian նէր (nēr), Classical Persian جَارِی (jārī), Latin iā̆nitrīx, and Ancient Greek ἐνάτηρ (enátēr).

जा • (jā) f (Urdu spelling جا)

1. (obsolete) co-sister-in-law; husband's younger brother's wife

   Synonym: देवरानी (devrānī) (more common)

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IPA^(key): /d͡ʑa/

जा • (jā)

1. inflection of जाणे (jāṇe):
   1. stem of जाणे
   2. second-person singular present imperative

• IPA^(key): [d͡zä]
• Phonetic Devanagari: जा

जा • (jā)

1. inflection of जानु (jānu):
   1. stem
   2. low-respectful second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵń̥h₁s, from *ǵenh₁-.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɑ́ː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɑː/

जा • (jā́) stem, m or f

1. offspring
2. (in plural) descendants
3. (at the end of a compound) daughter

• प्रजा (prajā)

• Monier Williams (1899), “जा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 416.