As a Hindi name
जाना
to go, leave, depart; to go to, extend; to be lost; an auxiliary verb
जाना · masculine
Śabdasāgara also records: पामर । नीच · मूर्ख । बेवकूफ
Platts (p. 371) also records: Cruel, harsh, severe; inconsiderate, rash, acting without thinking
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
contemptible, vile (livelihood)
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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
jālma mf(ī)n. contemptible, vile (livelihood), MBh. v, 4518; xii, 3897
cruel (krūra), L.
inconsiderate, L.
jālma mf(ī). a despised or contemptible man or woman, wretch, AV. iv, 16, 7; xii, 4, 51; ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 5; Lāṭy.; Vikr. &c. (ifc. Gaṇar. on Pāṇ. ii, 1, 53).
jālma a. (lmī f.) 1 Cruel, severe, harsh. 2 Rash, inconsiderate. — lmaḥ (lmī f.) 1 A rogue, rascal, villain, wretch, miscreant; api jñāyate katamena digbhāgena ga taḥ sa jālma iti V. 1. 2 A poor man, a low or degraded man. 3 One who reads or recites badly; cf. P. VI. 2. 158.
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