यज्
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- इज् (ij) — samprasāraṇa form
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- যজ্ (Assamese script)
- ᬬᬚ᭄ (Balinese script)
- যজ্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰧𑰕𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀬𑀚𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- ယဇ် (Burmese script)
- યજ્ (Gujarati script)
- ਯਜ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌯𑌜𑍍 (Grantha script)
- ꦪꦗ꧀ (Javanese script)
- 𑂨𑂔𑂹 (Kaithi script)
- ಯಜ್ (Kannada script)
- យជ៑ (Khmer script)
- ຍຊ຺ (Lao script)
- യജ് (Malayalam script)
- ᠶᠠᡯ (Manchu script)
- 𑘧𑘕𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᠶ᠋ᠠᠽ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧇𑦵𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐫𑐖𑑂 (Newa script)
- ଯଜ୍ (Odia script)
- ꢫꢙ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆪𑆘𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖧𑖕𑖿 (Siddham script)
- යජ් (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩻𑩣 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚣𑚑𑚶 (Takri script)
- யஜ் (Tamil script)
- యజ్ (Telugu script)
- ยชฺ (Thai script)
- ཡ་ཛ྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒨𑒖𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨪𑨥𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hyaȷ́-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyaȷ́-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ- (“to sacrifice, worship”).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /jɐd͡ʑ/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /jɐd͡ʑ/
Root
यज् • (yaj)
- to worship; to adore; to honour
- to consecrate; to hallow
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
- यज॑ति (yájati, present)
- य॒क्ष्यति॑ (yakṣyáti, future)
- य॒ष्टा (yaṣṭā́, periphrastic future)
- अया॑क्षीत् (áyākṣīt, aorist)
- इज्यात् (ijyāt, benedictive)
- इ॒याज॑ (iyā́ja, perfect)
Secondary forms
- इज्यते (ijyate, passive)
- याजयति (yājayati, causative)
- अयीयजत् (ayīyajat, causative aorist)
- यियक्षति (yiyakṣati, desiderative)
- यायज्यते (yāyajyate, intensive)
- यायष्टि (yāyaṣṭi, intensive)
Non-finite forms
- इ॒ष्ट (iṣṭá, past participle)
- यष्टु॑म् (yáṣṭum, infinitive)
- ईजितुम् (ījitum, infinitive)
- यजध्यै (yajadhyai, infinitive)
- इ॒ष्ट्वा (iṣṭvā́, gerund)
- इज्य (ijya, gerundive)
- य॒ष्ट॒व्य॑ (yaṣṭavyà, gerundive)
- यजनीय (yajanīya, gerundive)
- याज्य (yājya, causative gerundive)
- या॒ज॒यि॒त॒व्य॑ (yājayitavyà, causative gerundive)
- याजनीय (yājanīya, causative gerundive)
- यियक्षु (yiyakṣu, desiderative participle)
Derived nominal forms
- इज्या (ijyā)
- इष्टि॑ (íṣṭi)
- इ॒ष्टिन् (iṣṭín)
- यज॑ (yája)
- य॒ज॒त (yajatá)
- यज॑त्र (yájatra)
- य॒जथ॑ (yajátha)
- यजस् (yájas, “sacrifice”)
- यजस् (yajás, “worshipping”)
- यजि॑ष्ठ (yájiṣṭha)
- यजी॑यस् (yájīyas)
- यजु॑स् (yájus)
- य॒ज्ञ (yajñá)
- यज्य॑ (yájya)
- यज्यु॑ (yájyu)
- यज्व॑न् (yájvan)
- यज्विन् (yajvin)
- यष्टृ (yaṣṭṛ)
- याजक (yājaka)
- या॒ज्या॑ (yājyā̀)
Prefixed root forms
- अतियज् (atiyaj)
- अपयज् (apayaj)
- अभियज् (abhiyaj)
- अवयज् (avayaj)
- आयज् (āyaj)
- उपयज् (upayaj)
- परियज् (pariyaj)
- प्रतियज् (pratiyaj)
- प्रयज् (prayaj)
- संयज् (saṃyaj)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root यज् (0 c, 9 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root यज् (5 c, 0 e)
The desiderative इयक्षति (íyakṣati) is rather from अक्ष् (akṣ), etymologically related to नश् (naś, “to reach, attain”).
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “यज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 838, column 3.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 129
- Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “यज्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “yaj”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 392-3