जङ्घा

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰángʰas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰángʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ-o-s.[1] Compare Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬧𐬔𐬀 (zaṇga), Middle Persian [script needed] (zang).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    जङ्घा॑ • (jáṅghā) stemf (root जंह्) [2]

    1. shank (part of the leg between the knee and ankle)
      • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.116.15:
        च॒रित्रं॒ हि वेरि॒वाच्छे॑दि प॒र्णमा॒जा खे॒लस्य॒ परि॑तक्म्यायाम् ।
        स॒द्यो जङ्घा॒म्आय॑सीं वि॒श्पला॑यै॒ धने॑ हि॒ते सर्त॑वे॒ प्रत्य॑धत्तम् ॥
        carítraṃ hí vérivā́cchedi parṇámājā́ khelásya páritakmyāyām.
        sadyó jáṅghāmā́yasīṃ viśpálāyai dháne hité sártave prátyadhattam.
        When in the time of night, in Khela's battle, a leg was severed like a wild bird's pinion,
        Straight ye gave Vispala a leg of iron that she might move what time the conflict opened.

    Declension

    Feminine ā-stem declension of जङ्घा
    singular dual plural
    nominative जङ्घा (jáṅghā) जङ्घे (jáṅghe) जङ्घाः (jáṅghāḥ)
    accusative जङ्घाम् (jáṅghām) जङ्घे (jáṅghe) जङ्घाः (jáṅghāḥ)
    instrumental जङ्घया (jáṅghayā)
    जङ्घा¹ (jáṅghā¹)
    जङ्घाभ्याम् (jáṅghābhyām) जङ्घाभिः (jáṅghābhiḥ)
    dative जङ्घायै (jáṅghāyai) जङ्घाभ्याम् (jáṅghābhyām) जङ्घाभ्यः (jáṅghābhyaḥ)
    ablative जङ्घायाः (jáṅghāyāḥ)
    जङ्घायै² (jáṅghāyai²)
    जङ्घाभ्याम् (jáṅghābhyām) जङ्घाभ्यः (jáṅghābhyaḥ)
    genitive जङ्घायाः (jáṅghāyāḥ)
    जङ्घायै² (jáṅghāyai²)
    जङ्घयोः (jáṅghayoḥ) जङ्घानाम् (jáṅghānām)
    locative जङ्घायाम् (jáṅghāyām) जङ्घयोः (jáṅghayoḥ) जङ्घासु (jáṅghāsu)
    vocative जङ्घे (jáṅghe) जङ्घे (jáṅghe) जङ्घाः (jáṅghāḥ)
    • ¹Vedic
    • ²Brāhmaṇas

    Descendants

    • Dardic:
    • Pali: jaṅghā
    • Prakrit: 𑀚𑀁𑀖𑀸 (jaṃghā) (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
    2. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “जङ्घा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 409.