गीता

Borrowed from Sanskrit गीता (gītā).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɡiː.t̪ɑː/, [ɡiː.t̪äː]

गीता • (gītā) f (Urdu spelling گیتا)

1. song

   Synonyms: गीत (gīt), गाना (gānā)

2. (Hinduism) the Bhagavad Gita

   Synonym: भगवद् गीता (bhagvad gītā)

• गीत (gīt)

गीता (gītā)

1. Devanagari script form of gītā, which is ablative singular of गीत (gīta, “song”)

From the root गै (gai, “to sing”), from *geH- (“to sing, cry”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 (gāθā, “form of strophe, metre, namely the collections of Zarathustra's songs, the Gathas”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡiː.tɑ́ː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡiː.t̪ɑː/

गीता • (gītā́) stem, f

1. a song, sacred song or poem

• Monier Williams (1899) “गीता”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0356.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गीता”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “गीता”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 355, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 355
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