गति

Sanskrit

noun
Definitions
  • going, moving, gait, deportment, motion in general
  • manner or power of going
  • procession, march, passage, procedure, progress, movement
  • path, way, course
  • place of issue, origin, reason
  • possibility, expedient, means
  • means of success
  • way or art, method of acting
  • refuge, resource
  • the position (of a child at birth)
  • state, condition, situation, proportion, mode of existence
  • a happy issue; happiness
  • the course of the soul through numerous forms of life, metempsychosis, condition of a person undergoing this migration
  • manner
  • the being understood or meant
  • (grammar) a term for prepositions and some other adverbial prefixes when immediately connected with the tenses of a verb or with verbal derivatives
  • a kind of rhetorical figure
  • a particular high number
  • Motion (personified as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Pulaha)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *gátiṣ inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gátiš inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʷémtis

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