As a Hindi name
जाना
to go, leave, depart; to go to, extend; to be lost; an auxiliary verb
जाना · masculine
Śabdasāgara also records: पेट । उदर · पेट की वह अग्नि जिसकी सहायता से खाया हुआ अन्न पचता है । जठराग्नि
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit ग॒त — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *yéh₂ti Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáHti Proto-Indo-Aryan *yáHti Sanskrit याति॑ (yā́ti) Ashokan Prakrit 𑀬𑀸𑀢𑀺 (yāti) Prakrit जाइ (jāi) Hindi जाना Inherited from Prakrit जाइ (jāi), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀬𑀸𑀢𑀺 (yāti), from Sanskri…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
being on or in or relating to the stomach or belly or womb (jaṭhara)
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
jāṭhara mf(ī)n. being on or in or relating to the stomach or belly or womb (jaṭhara), MBh. xii, 9661; MārkP. ii, 37
with agni, ‘stomach fire’, digestive faculty, MBh. iii, 149; Suśr.
hunger, Pañcat. ii, 6, 50 (iv, 8, 3); BhP. iv
jāṭhara m. ‘womb-offspring’, a child, iii, 14, 38
N. of one of Skanda's attendants, MBh. ix, 2564.
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