jīva
Pali
alt
Definitions
- life
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit जीव (life, existence, living, chord, soul, sine, existing, alive, etc, long live).
Origin
Sanskrit
जीव
Gloss
life, existence, living, chord, soul, sine, existing, alive, etc, long live
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
生
Emoji
🧬
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- jiva English
- jivatma English
- आत्मन् Sanskrit
- कर्मन् Sanskrit
- जीव Sanskrit
- जीवात्मन् Sanskrit
- ज्या Sanskrit
- दण्ड Sanskrit
- प्रति Sanskrit
- -जी Hindi
- चिरंजीव Hindi
- जी Hindi
- जीव Hindi
- กรรม Thai
- ชีพ Thai
- -జీ Telugu
- జీవశాకము Telugu
- జీవాధారము Telugu
- jiwa Malay
- ကံ Burmese
- ဇီဝ Burmese
- ဇီဝကမ္မဗေဒ Burmese
- ဇီဝစက် Burmese
- ဇီဝဓာတုဗေဒ Burmese
- ဇီဝဗေဒ Burmese
- জীৱ Assamese
- cakka Pali
- kamma Pali
- pātu Pali
- takka Pali
- veda Pali
- જીવ Gujarati
- નિર્જીવ Gujarati
- *ǰiHwás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- जीव Marathi
- កម្ម Central Khmer
- ជីព Central Khmer
- ជីវៈ Central Khmer
- *ȷ́iHwás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- jiwa Javanese
- ၵၢမ်ႇ Shan
- ಜೀವ Kannada
- जीव Konkani
- 𑀚𑀻𑀯 Ashokan Prakrit
- -kamma Old Khmer
- ᬚᬶᬯ Balinese
- ଜୀବ Oriya
- ජීවය Sinhala, Sinhalese