गज

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ɡəd͡ʒ/, [ɡɐd͡ʒ]

Noun

गज • (gaj) m (Urdu spelling گج)

  1. elephant
    Synonym: हाथी (hāthī)
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) gudge: a historic unit of length equivalent to sixteen girah, redefined under British occupation as exactly equal to a yard

Declension

Old Gujarati

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

Noun

गज • (gaja) m

  1. elephant

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

गज m

  1. Devanagari script form of gaja (elephant)

Declension

Rajasthani

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

Noun

गज (gaj) m

  1. elephant

Synonyms

Further reading

  • Bhanwar Lal Suthar and Sukhveer Singh Gahlot (1998), Rajasthani-Hindi-English Dictionary, page 80. Jodhpur: Bharat Printers (Press).

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of uncertain, possibly substrate, origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

गज • (gaja) stem, m

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: हस्तिन् (hastin), नाग (nāga), कुञ्जर (kuñjara)
  2. (chaturanga) gaja, a chaturanga piece ancestral to the bishop in chess
    1. (chess) bishop

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of गज
Nom. sg. गजः (gajaḥ)
Gen. sg. गजस्य (gajasya)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative गजः (gajaḥ) गजौ (gajau) गजाः (gajāḥ)
Vocative गज (gaja) गजौ (gajau) गजाः (gajāḥ)
Accusative गजम् (gajam) गजौ (gajau) गजान् (gajān)
Instrumental गजेन (gajena) गजाभ्याम् (gajābhyām) गजैः (gajaiḥ)
Dative गजाय (gajāya) गजाभ्याम् (gajābhyām) गजेभ्यः (gajebhyaḥ)
Ablative गजात् (gajāt) गजाभ्याम् (gajābhyām) गजेभ्यः (gajebhyaḥ)
Genitive गजस्य (gajasya) गजयोः (gajayoḥ) गजानाम् (gajānām)
Locative गजे (gaje) गजयोः (gajayoḥ) गजेषु (gajeṣu)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “gaja”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “gaja- - ganá-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 458
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