Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“disease”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“disease”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
जाना
to go, leave, depart; to go to, extend; to be lost; an auxiliary verb
जाना · masculine
Śabdasāgara also records: तरोई । घिया · वह स्थान जहाँ चित्र बनते हों । चित्रशाला
Platts (p. 372) also records: A painted room, or one ornamented with pictures; a picture gallery
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
a species of melon (having a reticulated rind)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "jālinī" is the feminine form of "jālin" — the same word with the feminine ending, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Dictionary citations
jālinī f. (scil. piḍakā) N. of certain boils appearing in the Prameha disease, Car. i, 17, 80 and 83; Suśr. ii, 6, 8 and 10
a species of melon (having a reticulated rind), ib.
a painted room or one ornamented with pictures, L.
jālinī 1 A room ornamented with pictures. 2 A kind of melon (koṣātakī). 3 Certain boils or pustules which appear in the disease called prameha.
jālin mfn. having a net, W.
retiform, W.
Alternative readings
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