जा

जा (ja) (Latin script ja)

1. to eat
2. to have a meal

• IPA^(key): /d͡zɐ/

जा

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 Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑː/, [d͡ʒäː]

जा • (jā)

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

IPA^(key): /d͡ʑa/

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) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɑː/

जा • (jā́) m or f

1. offspring
2. (in plural) descendants

• प्रजा (prajā)

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