यातु

See also: यातृ and यति

Hindi

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit यातु (yātú). Doublet of जादू (jādū).

यातु • (yātu) m (rare, formal)

Declension of यातु (masc u-stem)

Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “यातु”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “यातु”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

यातु

Devanagari script form of yātu, third-person singular imperative active of याति (yāti, “to go”)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *yaHtúš (“magic, witchcraft, sorcery”), from *yeh₁-tú-s (“sorcery”) from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“to do, make, act vigorously”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬫𐬁𐬙𐬎‎ (yātu), Old Persian [script needed] (yātu) (whence Persian ‎ (jâdu, “magic”)).

यातु • (yātú) m

witchcraft, black magic
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.12.2:
  नाहं यातुं सहसा न द्वयेन ऋतं सपाम्यरुषस्य वृष्णः ॥
  nāhaṃ yātuṃ sahasā na dvayena ṛtaṃ sapāmyaruṣasya vṛṣṇaḥ .
  I use no sorcery with might or falsehood; the sacred Law of the Red Steer I follow.
a kind of evil spirit, demon

Masculine u-stem declension of यातु (yātú)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	यातुः yātúḥ	यातू yātū́	यातवः yātávaḥ
Vocative	यातो yā́to	यातू yā́tū	यातवः yā́tavaḥ
Accusative	यातुम् yātúm	यातू yātū́	यातून् yātū́n
Instrumental	यातुना / यात्वा¹ yātúnā / yātvā̀¹	यातुभ्याम् yātúbhyām	यातुभिः yātúbhiḥ
Dative	यातवे / यात्वे² yātáve / yātvè²	यातुभ्याम् yātúbhyām	यातुभ्यः yātúbhyaḥ
Ablative	यातोः / यात्वः² yātóḥ / yātvàḥ²	यातुभ्याम् yātúbhyām	यातुभ्यः yātúbhyaḥ
Genitive	यातोः / यात्वः² yātóḥ / yātvàḥ²	यात्वोः yātvóḥ	यातूनाम् yātūnā́m
Locative	यातौ yātaú	यात्वोः yātvóḥ	यातुषु yātúṣu
Notes	¹Vedic ²Less common

यातु • (yātu)

Monier Williams (1899), “Yātú, Yā”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0849.

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