गात्र

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गात्र (gātra). Doublet of गात (gāt).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːt̪.ɾᵊ/, [ɡäːt̪.ɾᵊ]

गात्र • (gātra) m (Urdu spelling گَاتْر‎)

1. (rare, formal) limb, body

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “गात्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “गात्र”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Compound of गा (gā, “to move”) +‎ -त्र (-tra, suffix indicating tool or instrument), literally “instrument for movement”.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɑ́ːt.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːt̪.ɾɐ/

गात्र • (gā́tra) n

1. "instrument for movement", a limb or a part of the body
2. the body

   Synonyms: तनू (tanū), अङ्ग (aṅga), शरीर (śarīra)

3. the forequarter of an elephant

• Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀕𑀸𑀅 (gāa)
• Magadhi Prakrit:
  • Early Assamese: গাৱ (gawo)
    • Assamese: গা (ga)
    • → Bodo (India): गाव (gao)
  • Bengali: গা (ga)
  • Kamta: গাও (gaö)
  • Rohingya: gaa
  • Sylheti: ꠉꠣ (ga)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀕𑀢𑁆𑀢 (gatta)
  • Old Marathi: gāta (“the four pieces forming the framework of a bed”)[1]

    Devanagari script: गात

    Modi script: 𑘐𑘰𑘝

• Pali: gatta
• Sauraseni Prakrit:
  • Hindustani:

  Hindi: गात (gāt)

  Urdu: گَات‎ (gāt)

• Bengali: গাত্র (gatro)
• Gujarati: ગાત્ર (gātra)
• Hindustani: (learned)

  Hindi: गात्र (gātra)

  Urdu: گَاتْر‎ (gātra)

• Malayalam: ഗാത്രം (gātraṃ)
• Old Marathi: gātra

  Devanagari script: गात्र

  Modi script: 𑘐𑘰𑘝𑘿𑘨

  • → Marathi: गात्र (gātra)
• Telugu: గాత్రము (gātramu)

• Monier Williams (1899), “गात्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 352.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890), “गात्र”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan