जिज्ञासते

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́íȷ́naHsatay, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́íȷ́naHsatay, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₃-ǵneh₃-setoy, from *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑíd͡ʑ.ɲɑː.sɐ.tɐj/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑid͡ʑˈɲɑː.s̪ɐ.t̪eː/

Verb

जिज्ञासते • (jíjñāsate) third-singular present indicative (root ज्ञा, type A)

desiderative of ज्ञा (jñā)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “जिज्ञासते”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 425.

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