जनक

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जनक (janaka).

जनक (janak) m

1. father
   • Sūrdās, Sūrsāgar 36.3:

     को है जनक कौन है जननी

     ko hai janak kaun hai jannī

     • 1991 translation by Rupert Snell

       who is his father, who is his mother

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जनक (janaka).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.nək/, [d͡ʒə.n̪ək]

जनक • (janak) m

1. father

   Synonym: पितृ (pitŕ)

From the root जन् (jan, “to give birth”) +‎ -अक (-aka), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐ.nɐ.kɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʑɐ.n̪ɐ.kɐ/

जनक • (janaka) m

1. a progenitor, father
2. (music) a kind of measure

जनक • (janaka)

1. name of a king of विदेह or मिथिला (son of मिथि and father of उदावसु)
2. name of another king of मिथिला (son of ह्रस्व-रोमन् and father of Sita)
3. name of another king Rājat
4. name of a disciple of भगवत्
5. name of several official men Rājat
6. (in the plural) the descendants of जनक

• Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1899