गायत्री

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): /ɡɑː.jɐt.ɾíː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːˈjɐt̪.ɾiː/

गायत्री • (gāyatrī́) f

1. an ancient metre of twenty-four syllables
2. any hymn composed in this metre

• गायत्री मन्त्र

• Monier Williams (1899), “गायत्री”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0352.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “गायत्री”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “गायत्री”, 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

1. Gāyatrī́
2. Gāyatrī́ Mántra