The corpus record — Sanskrit

jantūn

Lebewesen

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Where it lives

Chandogya Upanisad 2 · 0.43/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. Jantü-

Jantü- mn. Geschöpf, Wesen, Mensch, Stamm, Geschlecht, Leute {RV +). - Mi, nu.-dard,, ni., pä. jantu- m. ‘Lebewesen’ u.a, (Tu 5110 [nu, auch “Yanti-?), TuAdd 5110). - Iir., jav. zantum. Landkreis, Gau (und aav. hu-zöntu-, wenn ‘aus edlem Stamm’; s. die Lit. bei Narten, YH 266 Anm. 57). - Ide. *genh,-tü- (s.u.); zu JAN”. Die -i-lose Form jan” (- jänitu- in RV + janitoh ‘von der Geburt‘, s. AiGr II 2,666) ist wohl in … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. Jantü-, p. 625]

2. جَنتُ

a creature, living being, man, person (the sg. also used collectively, e.g. sarvaj, ‘everybody’, Śak. v, 5/6 ; ayaṃjantuḥ, ‘the man’, KaṭhUp. ii, 20 ; ŚvetUp. iii, 20 ; Mn. xii, 99 ), RV. ; Mn. &c.

3. جَنتُ

any animal of the lowest organisation, worms, insects, Mn. vi, 68 f. ; MBh. xiv, 1136 ; Suśr.

4. جَنتُ

N. of a son of Somaka , MBh. iii, 10473 ff. ; Hariv. 1793 ; BhP. ix, 22, 1 ; Kathās. xiii, 58 ff.

In the wild

jantūn Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,2.2
jantuḥ Chandogya Upanisad chup_6,8.4
jantuḥ Chandogya Upanisad chup_8,3.4

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.