As a Hindi name
जाना
to go, leave, depart; to go to, extend; to be lost; an auxiliary verb
जाना · masculine
Śabdasāgara also records: बहिन । भगिनी · लड़की कन्या
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
related (in general), belonging or peculiar to, customary, usual, (m.) a relative, (cf. jāṃ-dhita s.v. jā)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "jāmi" is the vocative of "jāmī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
jāmi mfn. related like brother and sister, (f. with [RV. i, iii, ix] or without svasṛ) a sister, (rarely m.) a brother, RV. (‘sisters’, = fingers; ‘7 sisters’ = 7 acts of devotion in Soma worship, ix, 66, 8; cf. sapta-), AV.
related (in general), belonging or peculiar to, customary, usual, (m.) a relative, RV. (cf. jāṃ-dhita s.v. jā)
jāmi f. a female relative of the head of a family, esp. the daughter-in-law, Mn. iii, 57 f.; MBh. xiii, xv; BhP. iv, 28, 16
a sister (?), Yājñ. i, 157
a virtuous woman, L.
jāmī f. = ˚mi, a daughter-in-law, MBh. xii, 8868
N. of an Apsaras, Hariv. iii, 69, 6
Alternative readings
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