यज्ञ
Sanskrit
alt
Definitions
- worship, devotion, prayer, praise
- act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice
- a worshipper, sacrificer
- fire
- Sacrifice personified
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyaȷ́nás inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-nó-s, *yeh₁ǵ- (revere, worship, sacrifice).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*yeh₁ǵ-
Gloss
revere, worship, sacrifice
Concept
Semantic Field
Religion and belief
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
犠
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Yazd English
- hagio- English
- hagiography English
- yazata English
- ieiunus Latin
- ἅγιος Ancient Greek
- *h₁yaǵ-nó-s Proto-Indo-European
- *yeh₁ǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- देव Sanskrit
- देवयज्ञ Sanskrit
- पाक Sanskrit
- पाकयज्ञ Sanskrit
- पितृ Sanskrit
- पितृयज्ञ Sanskrit
- ब्रह्मन् Sanskrit
- ब्रह्मयज्ञ Sanskrit
- भूत Sanskrit
- भूतयज्ञ Sanskrit
- मनुष्य Sanskrit
- मनुष्ययज्ञ Sanskrit
- जशन Hindi
- यज्ञ Hindi
- ایزد Persian
- ایزدی Persian
- جشن Persian
- یزد Persian
- ยัญ Thai
- yañña Pali
- જશન Gujarati
- *Hyaȷ́nás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *jagjūnos Proto-Italic
- យញ្ញ Central Khmer
- ایزدی Urdu
- yẕdʾn' Middle Persian
- *Hyajnáh Proto-Iranian
- ಯಜ್ಞ Kannada
- 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬯𐬥𐬀 Avestan
- 𐬫𐬀𐬯𐬥𐬀 Avestan
- 𐬫𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬙𐬀 Avestan