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जगत्

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जगत् (jagat). Doublet of जग (jag).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /d͡ʒə.ɡət̪/, [d͡ʒɐ.ɡɐt̪]

Noun

जगत् (jagat) m (Urdu spelling جگت)

  1. world, universe, existence
    Synonyms: दुनिया (duniyā), संसार (sansār), विश्व (viśva), लोक (lok)
  2. (taxonomy) kingdom

Declension

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

    Nominal form of an unattested *जगाति (*jagāti, goes), from the root गा (, to go, approach, pursue).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    जगत् (jágat) stem, n

    1. that which moves or is alive, men and animals, animals as opposed to men, men
    2. the world (esp. this world), earth, the universe
    3. body, the "world of the soul"
    4. a multitude of animals
    5. (in the dual) heaven and the lower world
    6. (in the plural) the worlds
    7. people, mankind
    8. the Jagatī metre

    Declension

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    Derived terms

    • जगन्नाथ (jagannātha)
    • जगत्पति (jagatpati)
    • जगत्पित्रि (jagatpitri)
    • जगत्प्रसिद्ध (jagatprasiddha)
    • जगदीश (jagadīśa)

    Descendants

    Noun

    जगत् (jágat) stem, m

    1. wind, air (L.)
    2. (in the plural) people, mankind

    Declension

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    • ¹Vedic

    Adjective

    जगत् (jágat) stem

    1. moving, moveable, locomotive, living
      • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.115.1:
        चि॒त्रं दे॒वाना॒मुद॑गा॒दनी॑कं॒ चक्षु॑र्मि॒त्रस्य॒ वरु॑णस्या॒ग्नेः।
        आप्रा॒ द्यावा॑पृथि॒वी अ॒न्तरि॑क्षं॒ सूर्य॑ आ॒त्मा जग॑तस्त॒स्थुष॑श्च॥
        citráṃ devā́nāmúdagādánīkaṃ cákṣurmitrásya váruṇasyāgnéḥ.
        ā́prā dyā́vāpṛthivī́ antárikṣaṃ sū́rya ātmā́ jágatastasthúṣaśca.
        The brilliant face of the gods has arisen, the eye of Mitra, Varuṇa, and Agni; he has filled heaven, earth, and the space between: the Sun is the life-breath of both the moving and the still.

    Declension

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    • ¹Vedic
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    • ¹Vedic
    • ²Brāhmaṇas
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    References

    • Monier Williams (1899), “जगत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 408, column 1.
    • Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890), “जगत्”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 722
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 562-3
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