मज्जति

मज्जति (root majj, first conjugation)

1. Devanagari script form of majjati (“to wipe”)

• Present active participle: मज्जन्त् (majjant), which see for forms and usage
• Past participle: मज्जित (majjita), मट्ठ (maṭṭha), which see for forms and usage

मज्जति (root mad, third conjugation)

1. Devanagari script form of majjati (“to be intoxicated”)

• Present active participle: मज्जन्त् (majjant), which see for forms and usage
• Past participle: मत्त (matta), which see for forms and usage

मज्जति (majjati)

1. Devanagari script form of majjati, which is masculine/neuter locative singular of मज्जन्त् (majjant), present participles of the verbs above

From Proto-Indo-European *mésg-e-ti (“to dip, sink”).

Cognate with Latin mergō (“I dip”), Lithuanian mazgóti, Latvian mazgât. Compare also English sub-merge, immerse, Latin borrowings.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐ́d.d͡ʑɐ.ti/, [mɐ́d̚.d͡ʑɐ.ti]
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /mɐd̪.d͡ʑɐ.t̪i/, [mɐd̪̚.d͡ʑɐ.t̪i]

मज्जति • (májjati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type P, root मज्ज्)

1. to sink
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 9.64.21:

     अ॒भि वे॒ना अ॑नूष॒तेय॑क्षन्ति॒ प्रचे॑तसः ।
     मज्ज॒न्त्य् अवि॑चेतसः ॥

     abhí venā́ anūṣatéyakṣanti prácetasaḥ.
     májjanty ávicetasaḥ.

     The friends have sung in unison, the intelligent ones wish to worship:
     Down sink the unintelligent ones.

   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 1.1.92:

     न चाग्निजं भयं किं चिन् नाप्सु मज्जन्ति जन्तवः ।
     न वातजं भयं किं चिन् नापि ज्वरकृतं तथा ॥

     na cāgnijaṃ bhayaṃ kiṃ cin nāpsu majjanti jantavaḥ.
     na vātajaṃ bhayaṃ kiṃ cin nāpi jvarakṛtaṃ tathā.

     There is no fear of fire; no beings drown in water;
     There is no fear of air, and neither that of fever.

2. to dive, plunge, bathe in water
3. to go down, go to hell, to perish, to be ruined

• मज्जयति (majjáyati)
• मग्न (magná, “immersed”)
• मङ्क्तृ (maṅktṛ, “diver”)

• Assamese: মজা (moza), মুজা (muza)