હાથ

Gujarati

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰós-tos

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰástas

Sanskrit हस्त (hasta)

Prakrit 𑀳𑀢𑁆𑀣 (hattha)

Old Gujarati हाथ (hātha)

Gujarati હાથ (hāth)

Inherited from Old Gujarati हाथ (hātha), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀢𑁆𑀣 (hattha), from Sanskrit हस्त (hásta). Cognate with Kachchi હથ (hath), Marathi हात (hāt), Marwari and Nimadi हाथ (hāth), Romani vast.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑt̪ʰ/
• Rhymes: -ɑt̪ʰ
• Hyphenation: હાથ

Noun

હાથ • (hāth) m

1. (anatomy) hand

Declension

Declension of હાથ
	singular	plural
nominative	હાથ (hāth)	હાથો (hātho)
oblique	હાથ (hāth)	હાથો (hātho)
vocative	હાથ (hāth)	હાથો (hātho)
instrumental	હાથે (hāthe)	હાથોએ (hāthoe)
locative	હાથે (hāthe)	હાથોએ (hāthoe)

Further reading

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “hasta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 811