गण
Appearance
Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit गण (gaṇa).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]गण • (gaṇ) m
- flock, troop, group, company, order
- company of men formed with common goals
- लुटेरों का गण ― luṭerõ kā gaṇ ― group of bandits
- class (of beings or objects)
- a body of followers or attendants
- (in the plural) dependants, servants; attendant deities
- (taxonomy) order
- (prosody) a group of mantras comprising a foot
- (grammar) collective plural marker
Declension
[edit]Declension of गण (masc cons-stem)
Related terms
[edit]- (Taxonomy) वर्गिकी (vargikī); प्रक्षेत्र (prakṣetra), अधिजगत (adhijgat, “domain”), जगत (jagat, “kingdom”), संघ (saṅgh, “phylum”), वर्ग (varg, “class”), गण (gaṇ, “order”), कुल (kul, “family”), वंश (vañś, “genus”), जाति (jāti, “species”) (Category: hi:Taxonomy)
References
[edit]- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “गण”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative scripts
Noun
[edit]गण m
- Devanagari script form of gaṇa
Declension
[edit]Declension table of "गण" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | गणो (gaṇo) | गणा (gaṇā) |
Accusative (second) | गणं (gaṇaṃ) | गणे (gaṇe) |
Instrumental (third) | गणेन (gaṇena) | गणेहि (gaṇehi) or गणेभि (gaṇebhi) |
Dative (fourth) | गणस्स (gaṇassa) or गणाय (gaṇāya) or गणत्थं (gaṇatthaṃ) | गणानं (gaṇānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | गणस्मा (gaṇasmā) or गणम्हा (gaṇamhā) or गणा (gaṇā) | गणेहि (gaṇehi) or गणेभि (gaṇebhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | गणस्स (gaṇassa) | गणानं (gaṇānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | गणस्मिं (gaṇasmiṃ) or गणम्हि (gaṇamhi) or गणे (gaṇe) | गणेसु (gaṇesu) |
Vocative (calling) | गण (gaṇa) | गणा (gaṇā) |
Sanskrit
[edit]Alternative scripts
[edit]Alternative scripts
- গণ (Assamese script)
- ᬕᬡ (Balinese script)
- গণ (Bengali script)
- 𑰐𑰜 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀕𑀡 (Brahmi script)
- ဂဏ (Burmese script)
- ગણ (Gujarati script)
- ਗਣ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌗𑌣 (Grantha script)
- ꦒꦟ (Javanese script)
- 𑂏𑂝 (Kaithi script)
- ಗಣ (Kannada script)
- គណ (Khmer script)
- ຄຓ (Lao script)
- ഗണ (Malayalam script)
- ᡤᠠᢏᠠ (Manchu script)
- 𑘐𑘜 (Modi script)
- ᠺᠠᢏᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦰𑦼 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐐𑐞 (Newa script)
- ଗଣ (Odia script)
- ꢔꢠ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆓𑆟 (Sharada script)
- 𑖐𑖜 (Siddham script)
- ගණ (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩞𑩪 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚌𑚘 (Takri script)
- க³ண (Tamil script)
- గణ (Telugu script)
- คณ (Thai script)
- ག་ཎ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒑𑒝 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨍𑨘 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
[edit]From the root गण् (gaṇ, “to calculate, count”) + -अ (-a)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]गण • (gaṇá) stem, m
- a flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, series, class (of animate or inanimate beings), body of followers or attendants
- (Hinduism) troops or classes of inferior deities (especially certain troops of demi-gods considered as Shiva's attendants and under the special superintendence of the god Ganesha)
- a company, any assemblage or association of men formed for the attainment of the same aims
- a small body of troops (= 3 गुल्मs or 27 chariots and as many elephants, 81 horses, and 135 foot)
- (astronomy) a series or group of asterisms or lunar mansions classed under three heads (that of the gods, that of the men, and that of the राक्षसs)
- (arithmetic) a number
- (grammar) a series of roots or words following the same rule and called after the first word of the series (e.g. अद्-आदि, the g. अद् &c. or the whole series of roots of the 2nd class ; गर्गादि, the g. गर्ग &c. or the series of words commencing with गर्ग)
Declension
[edit]Masculine a-stem declension of गण (gaṇá) | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | गणः gaṇáḥ |
गणौ / गणा¹ gaṇaú / gaṇā́¹ |
गणाः / गणासः¹ gaṇā́ḥ / gaṇā́saḥ¹ |
Vocative | गण gáṇa |
गणौ / गणा¹ gáṇau / gáṇā¹ |
गणाः / गणासः¹ gáṇāḥ / gáṇāsaḥ¹ |
Accusative | गणम् gaṇám |
गणौ / गणा¹ gaṇaú / gaṇā́¹ |
गणान् gaṇā́n |
Instrumental | गणेन gaṇéna |
गणाभ्याम् gaṇā́bhyām |
गणैः / गणेभिः¹ gaṇaíḥ / gaṇébhiḥ¹ |
Dative | गणाय gaṇā́ya |
गणाभ्याम् gaṇā́bhyām |
गणेभ्यः gaṇébhyaḥ |
Ablative | गणात् gaṇā́t |
गणाभ्याम् gaṇā́bhyām |
गणेभ्यः gaṇébhyaḥ |
Genitive | गणस्य gaṇásya |
गणयोः gaṇáyoḥ |
गणानाम् gaṇā́nām |
Locative | गणे gaṇé |
गणयोः gaṇáyoḥ |
गणेषु gaṇéṣu |
Notes |
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Descendants
[edit]- Dardic:
- Torwali: گن (gan)
- Pali: gaṇa
- → Burmese: ဂိုဏ်း (guin:)
- → Old Javanese: gaṇa
- → Tamil: கணம் (kaṇam) (learned)
References
[edit]- Monier Williams (1899) “गण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0343.
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