जातकर्मन्
Sanskrit
noun
Definitions
- birth ceremony in which ghee is placed on the newborn's tongue three times with prayers (, )
Etymology
Compound from Sanskrit जात (birth, origin, race) + Sanskrit कर्मन् (action, act, performance, activity, work, rite, deed, first member of a compound, duty, doer).
Origin
Sanskrit
कर्मन्
Gloss
action, act, performance, activity, work, rite, deed, first member of a compound, duty, doer
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
✂️ 🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- karma English
- karma Finnish
- Karma German
- karma Italian
- karma Dutch, Flemish
- karma Spanish, Castilian
- *kʷer- Proto-Indo-European
- カルマ Japanese
- 羯磨 Japanese
- कर्मकाण्ड Sanskrit
- कर्मधारय Sanskrit
- कर्मन् Sanskrit
- कृ Sanskrit
- जनता Sanskrit
- जात Sanskrit
- karma Esperanto
- karma Icelandic
- कर्म Hindi
- जतारा Hindi
- 羯磨 Chinese
- kamma Pali
- *ȷ́aHtás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- 카르마 Korean
- *kárma Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *źaHtás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- 𑀓𑀫𑁆𑀫 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀓𑀫𑁆𑀫 Maharastri Prakrit
- 𑀚𑀸𑀬 Maharastri Prakrit
- கருமம் Tamil
- சாதம் Tamil
- ਜਾਤ Panjabi, Punjabi
- -kamma Old Khmer
- -karmma Old Khmer
- krom Kalasha
- कम्म Dogri
- *kárma Proto-Dardic