As a deity name
Name 91 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
जाति · noun · feminine
हिंदुओं में मनुष्य समाज का वह विभाग जो पहले पहल कर्मानुसार किया गया था, पर पीछे से स्वभावत: जन्मानुसार हो गया · मनुष्य समाज का वह विभाग जो निवासस्थान या वंश- परंपरा के विचार से किया गया हो । जैसे, अंग्रेजी जाति, मुगल जाति, पारसी जाति, आर्य जाति आदि · वह विभाग जो गुण, धर्म, आकृति आदि की समानता के विचार से किया जाय । कोटि । वर्ग । जैसे,—मनुष्य जाति, पशु जाति, कीट जाति । वह अच्छी जाति का घोड़ा है । यह दोनों आम एक ही जाति के हैं — Śabdasāgara
जाति · jāti · s.f.
See jāt, s.f — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 370
जाति · feminine
birth; caste; subcaste, community; community placed in at birth; high caste; race
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis Sanskrit जा॒ति (jātí)bor. Hindi जाति Borrowed from Sanskrit जा॒ति (jātí).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
birth, production, (also ˚tī, ) &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (14)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "jāti" is the vocative of "jātī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
jāti f. birth, production, AitBr. ii, 39; Mn.; MBh. (also ˚tī, xiii f.) &c.
re-birth, R. i, 62, 17; Kāraṇḍ. xxiii, 193
the form of existence (as man, animal, &c.) fixed by birth, Mn. iv, 148 f.; Yogas. ii, 13
position assigned by birth, rank, caste, family, race, lineage, KātyŚr. xv; Mn.; Yājñ. &c. (˚tī, MBh. xiv, 2549)
kind, genus (opposed to species), species (opposed to individual), class, Lāṭy.; KātyŚr.; Pāṇ. &c., (once ˚tī ifc. MBh. vi, 456)
jātī f. = ˚ti, q.v.
Jasminum grandiflorum, Hariv. 7891; Bhartṛ.; BhP. x; Amar.
Alternative readings
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