As a deity name
Name 331 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
As a Hindi name
जानकी · noun · feminine
जनक की पुत्री । सीता — Śabdasāgara
जानकी · feminine
Janaki, the daughter of Janak, an epithet goddess Sita; a female given name, Janaki, from Sanskrit
Cited formation "जानकी" is जानक + -ई: जानक means "Pertaining or relating to life or to the living", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "जानकी" is जानक + -ई: जानक means "Pertaining or relating to life or to the living", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi जनक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit जनक (janaka).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
janaka mfn. (Pāṇ. vii, 3, 35, Kāś.) generative, generating, begetting, producing, causing (chiefly ifc.), MBh. iv, 1456; VarBṛS.; Bhāṣāp.; Bhpr.
janaka m. a progenitor, father, Hariv. 982; R. vi, 3, 45; Pañcat. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
patr. of Sitā
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M1 · same meaning "jānakī" is the nominative dual of "jānaki" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
jānakī f. patr. of Sitā, MBh. iii, 15872; R. iii, 51, 6; Ragh. xii, 61; xv, 74
a metre of 4 × 24 syllables.
jānakī f. of ˚ka, q.v.
jānakī [janakasyāpatyaṃ strī, aṇ] N. of Sītā, wife of Rāma.
jānakī f. (-kī) A name of SĪTĀ. E. janaka the father of this lady. affixes aṇ and ṅīṣ.
jānaki m. patr. of Kratu-jit, TS. ii, 3, 8, 1
of Āyasthūṇa, ŚBr. xiv (once ˚ki)
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