knows, knows about (someone or something); is aware (of), experiences; gets to know, finds out; knows how (to, inf.); has knowledge or understanding.

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Janati¹

only in Caus. janeti [Sk. janayati] often spelled jāneti (cp. jaleti: jāleti) & Pass. (intrs.) jāyati to bring forth, produce, cause, syn. sañjaneti nibbatteti …

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Cnd s.v. explains jānāti by passati dakkhati adhigacchati vindati paṭilabhati, & ñatvā…

3. sg. concedes; agrees with (gen.) about (acc).

1. recognizes, knows; understands.
2. is aware of; acknowledges; remembers;
   1. + acc, esp. ace. of pp:
   2. + absol.;
   3. + nom. of agent noun.

gives permission; grants, allows; grants leave; excuses; advises; prescribes.

1. despises; underrates.
2. denies, repudiates.

jaññā¹

opt. 3 sg. of jānāti

jaññā²

3 pl. of jānāti

jaññā³

absol. of jānāti

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adverb of also jānāti knowingly; with knowledge

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finds out (for oneself), ascertains; invents; knows by personal experience (+ acc. or gen.); (first) teaches.

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of jānāti to be known; knowable; being an object of knowledge

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understands; perceives

…˚jāti off-spring, ˚jānāti know all over ˚bhavati overcome, ˚vaḍḍhati increase, ˚vuṭṭha poured out or over, ˚sandeti make…

…(q.v.).

abhi + jñā, cp. jānāti & abhiññā

1. to make known, to communicate Dāvs v.2, Dāvs v.11.
2. to know Ja.vi.175 (jānāti C.).

abhi + Caus. of vid

grd. of abhijānāti.

…use of an adj. (˚abhiñña) see abhiñña.

fr. abhi + jñā, see…

…DN-a.i.252), DN.i.235; Snp.p.115.

pp. of abhijānāti

…(q.v.) Caus. anujānāpeti Ja.i.156.

anu + jānāti

…anu + saṃ + jñā (jānāti) or (preferably) = anusaṃyāti as short form of anusaṃyāyati, like anuyāti → anuyāyati of anu +…

…DN-a.i.267; Pv-a.12, Pv-a.81.

pp. of anujānāti

to think little of, to underrate, despise Dhp.121 (= avajānāti Dhp-a.iii.16; variant reading avapamaññati).

appa + maññati

…(duṭṭho atthaṃ na jānāti dhammaṃ na passati: he realises neither the meaning nor the importance); Dhp.363 (= bhāsitatthañ c’ eva…

…look down on), see ava-jānāti, ˚bhūta, ˚mānita, ˚vajja, ˚hasati away from, i.e. the opposite of, as equivalent to a negation and…

1. to deny Vin.ii.85; AN.iii.164 = Pp.65.
2. (later) to despise Dhp-a.iii.16; Pv-a.175 (grd ˚jānitabba)-Of short stem-form ñā are found the foll grd. avaññeyya Pv-a.175, and with o˚: grd. oñāta …

adjective despised, treated with contempt Pv-a.135 (an˚); Sdhp.88, Sdhp.90.

pp. of avajānāti

…ājñā, = ā + jñā, cp. ājānāti

…one who imagines to be in possession of right insight AN.iii.175 sq.; Thag.953.

pp. of ājānāti, q.v.

Aññāta²

unknown, see…

one who knows, a knower of DN.ii.286; MN.i.169; SN.i.106 (dhammassa); Kv.561.

n. ag. to ājānāti

adjective desirous of gaining right knowledge AN.iii.192. See ājānāti.

ā + jñātuṃ + kāma

…(see aññā).

from ājānāti

recognising, knowing, in the conviction of SN.i.24; AN.iii.41; Dhp.275, Dhp.411.

ger. of ājānāti, q.v. for detail

…’yam āyasmā jānaṃ jānāti passaṃ passatī ti evaṃ sambhāvanīyo“ MN-a.156); SN.v.164; AN.iii.110; Mil.373; Pv-a.9. See also…

…MN.i.2 (bhūte bhūtato sañjānāti recognises the beings from nature, i.e. from the fact of being nature) Dhs-a.312 (˚pasāda-lakkhaṇa, see…

…(cp. the use of the phrase jānāti passati “to know and to see” = to understand clearly). See e.g. SN.ii.7–⁠SN.ii.11, SN.ii.105;…

…interr. pron.: ko carahi jānāti who then knows? Snp.990; kathañ carahi jānemu how then shall we know? Snp.999; kiñ c. AN.v.194
■…

…vedeti, ceteti, sañjānāti he has the feeling, the awareness (of the feeling) the consciousness SN.iv.68. Its seat is freq. mentioned…

…vedeti, ceteti, sañjānāti he has the feeling, the awareness (of the feeling) the consciousness SN.iv.68. Its seat is freq. mentioned…

…Snp.985; cittam me Gotamo jānāti (G. knows my heart) SN.i.178; theyya-citto intending to steal Vin.iii.58; āraddha-citto of determined mind…

…ñ-d ˚ṃ paṭijānāti; id. MN.ii.31); DN.iii.134; AN.i.220; AN.ii.220; AN.iv.302 sq.; cp. ñ-d-paṭilābha AN.i.43 AN.ii.44 sq.;…

…sight or intuition (see jānāti passati & cp. ñāṇa-dassana).

1. As adj - ˚: seeing, being aware of, realizing;…

…so Bhagavā jānaṃ jānāti passaṃ passati cakkhu-bhūto ñāṇa-bhūto dhamma˚ brahma˚ & in this possession of the truth he is not…

…diṭṭhato sañjānāti); Snp.147 (diṭṭhā vā ye vā addiṭṭhā), Snp.995 (na me diṭṭho ito pubbe na ssuto… Satthā)…

…ca yathābhūtaṃ pajānāti); Iti.38 (nirodha ˚anaṃ);

• -nidāna a source of pain MN.ii.223; Dhs.1059,…

… ■ tassā gatiṃ jānāti “he knows her going away, i.e. where she has gone” Pv-a.6. 2. going away, passing on (= cuti opp….

(-˚) born, produced, sprung or arisen from. Freq. in compounds: atta˚, ito˚, eka˚, kuto˚, khandha˚, jala˚ daratha˚, dāru˚, di˚, puthuj˚, pubba˚, yoni˚, vāri˚ saha˚, sineha˚.

adj
■ suffix from *jan …

birth, descent, rank Snp.1018.

to janati

birth, descent, rank Snp.1018.

to janati

creature, living being:

1. sg. an individual, a creature person, man Snp.121, Snp.676, Snp.807, Snp.1023 (sabba everybody) Usually collectively: people, they, one (= Fr. on), with pl. of verb Dhp.249 …

1. producing, production Vism.369; adj. (-˚) producing: pasāda˚ Mhvs.i.4 (= ˚kāraka); a species of karma Vism.601; Cpd. 144 (A.i).
2. n. f -ikā genetrix, mother Ja.i.16; Dhs.1059≈(where it repre …

adjective producing, causing (-˚) Iti.84 (anattha˚ dosa); Ja.iv.141; Dpvs.i.2; Dhs-a.258 Dhtp.428
■ f. jananī Pv-a.1 (saṃvega˚ dẹsanā); mother (cp. janettī) Ja.iv.175; Pv-a.7 …

collection of people (“mankind”), congregation, gathering; people, folk DN.i.151 (= DN-a.i.310, correct jananā), DN.i.206; Vin.ii.128 = MN.ii.93 (pacchimā); AN.i.61 (id.); AN.iii.251 (id.); Iti.33; J …

Jantu¹

a creature, living being, man, person SN.i.48; AN.iv.227; Snp.586, Snp.773 sq., Snp.808 , Snp.1103; Cnd.249 (= satta, nara, puggala); Dhp.105, Dhp.176 Dhp.341, Dhp.395; Ja.i.202; Ja …

…suviññeyya Pv-a.230). Cp. ājāna.

to jñā, see jānāti

1. As adj. n.un
   1. born, grown, arisen, produced (= nibbatta pātubhūta Cnd.256) Snp.576 (jātānaṃ maccānaṃ niccaṃ maraṇato bhayaṃ); jātena maccena kattabbaṃ kusalaṃ bahuṃ Dhp.53 = Mil.333; yakkhinī …

■ Instr. jātiyā (Snp.423) & jaccā (DN.ii.8; Ja.iii.395; Dhp.393); abl. jātiyā (SN.i.88) & jātito (by descent: DN.ii.8); loc. jātiyaṃ (Pv-a.10) & jātiyā (Pv-a.78).

1. birth, rebirth, possibility of …

(jāyate) to be born, to be produced, to arise, to be reborn.
pres 3rd pl. jāyare Ja.iii.459; Ja.iv.53; Mil.337;
ppr jāyanto Snp.208;
aor jāyi Ja.iii.391;
inf jātum Ja.i.374
■ *[jāyati](/defi …

…Vism.502-yo dukkhassa pajānāti idh’ eva khayaṃ attano Snp.626 = Dhp.402; khayaṃ virāgaṃ amataṃ paṇītaṃ Snp.225-In exegesis…

…Vin.ii.173 kālaṃ jānāti “he knows the proper time” AN.iv.114; as cattāro kālā, four opportunities AN.ii.140; yassa kālaṃ…

…Vin.ii.173 kālaṃ jānāti “he knows the proper time” AN.iv.114; as cattāro kālā, four opportunities AN.ii.140; yassa kālaṃ…

…it happens that the term vijānāti used of manas, is also used of the 5^th sense, that of touch (to which mano is…

…it happens that the term vijānāti used of manas, is also used of the 5^th sense, that of touch (to which mano is…

…to be sure Snp.840 (= jānāti Mnd.192), Snp.1049, Snp.1142; Cnd.491 (= jānāti); Dhp-a.i.29 (maññāmi tuvaṃ marissasi). 3. to imagine,…

holy man, a sage, wise man.

I

The term which was specialised in Brahmanism has acquired a general meaning in Buddhism & is applied by the Buddha to any man attaining perfection in self-rest …

…and analogy formation after jānāti as munāti, may be in allusion to Sk. mṛṇāti of mṛ; to crush, or also…

…sq. (+ passati, cp. jānāti), SN.iii.157; MN.i.334 (jhāyati n. apajjhāyati); MN.iii.14 (id.). Cp. upa˚.

Sk. nidhyāyati, ni +…

…(for ocināti metri causa) Ja.vi.4 (= avajānāti C.).

…(for ocināti metri causa) Ja.vi.4 (= avajānāti C.).

despised Mil.191, Mil.229, Mil.288.

pp. o + jānāti, see also avañāta

…˚jalati blaze up; ˚jānāti know well
■ In this meaning often with adjectives like patanu very thin; ˚thaddha quite stiff;…

…Pv-a.87); Ne.93; Mil.125 Mil.313; Pv-a.116 (bālaṃ), Pv-a.241 (agree to = paṭijānāti).
ger paṭicca (q.v.). Cp. paccāgacchati
pp…

…Ne.28 Ne.54. As nt. ˚a at Vism.436.

fr. pajānāti

…Dhp.402; Pv.i.11#12 (= jānāti Pv-a.60); Ja.v.445; Pp.64
ppr pajānaṃ Snp.884, Snp.1050 Snp.1104 (see explⁿ at Mnd.292 =…

…samukkaṃse paraṃ avajānāti); Ja.i.256 (paresaṃ, opp. attanā) Cnd.26 (att-attha opp. par-attha, see compounds ˚ajjhāsaya & ˚attha)…

…cetasā ceto paricca (pajānāti) grasping fully with one’s mind, e.g. at DN.i.79; MN.i.445; MN.iii.12; SN.ii.121, SN.ii.233; Iti.12; Vb.329;…

…+ jānāti

…a charm) DN.i.117 (= jānāti DN-a.i.117); AN.iii.86 (dhammaṃ); fut pariyāpuṇissati Dhp-a.i.382 (dhammaṃ); ger. pariyāpuṇitvā…

…(cp. Nd ii.under abhiññeyya).

grd. of parijānāti

…& meaning) the ger. of parijānāti (like abhiññāya → abhijānitvā) for the usual parijānitvā It is freq. found in poetry & in formulas…

…is to be made to grow MN.i.293.

pp. of parijānāti

…jānaṃ passaṃ): see jānāti 11. 3. to find Snp.1118 (= vindati paṭilabhati Cnd.428#b); Ja.iii.55; Pv.ii.9#9
■…

…2 paññāpāpeti Ja.iii.371.

Caus. of pajānāti

known, renowned DN-a.i.143; ap˚ unknown, defamed Vin.iv.231; SN.iv.46; AN.iii.134 (where also der. appaññātika).

pp. of pajānāti

…= viceyya.

ger. of pajānāti, in relation ˚ñāya: ñatvā as uṭṭhāya: ṭhatvā; so explained by P. Commentators whereas modern…

…Pv-a.172 (paccakkhato).

Pass. of pajānāti

…(hankering after) ˚ggaha, ˚jānāti ˚pūjeti ˚peseti (send out to), ˚baddha (bound to), ˚bhaya ˚yatta, ˚rūpa, ˚laddha, ˚labhati…

…(q.v.).

paṭi + jānāti

to recognise Vin.iii.130; Cnd.378 (ājānāti vijānāti p. paṭivijjhati); Mil.299.

paṭi + vi + jānāti

agreed, acknowledged, promised Vin.ii.83, Vin.ii.102; DN.i.88; AN.i.99; AN.iv.144; Pv-a.55.

pp. of paṭijānāti

Ratta¹

1. dyed, coloured MN.i.36 (dūratta-vaṇṇa difficult to dye or badly dyed MN-a.167 reads duratta and explains as durañjita-vaṇṇa opp. suratta ibid.); Snp.287 (nānā-rattehi vatthe …

…explained as “ruta-jña, sabba-rāvaṃ jānāti” C.).

to recollect, to know Ja.vi.126.

saṃ + abhijānati

…Com. ib. 117¹⁵).

saṃ + anujānāti

approval SN.i.1; MN.i.359.

fr. samanujānāti

…AN.i.128 AN.iv.370; AN.v.265; Ja.i.23.

saṃ + pajāna, cp. pajānāti; BSk. samprajāna, Mvu.i.206; Mvu.ii.360

to know SN.v.154; Snp.1055; Cnd.655.

saṃ + pajānāti

to be born; only in Caus. -janeti to cause, produce; realize Pp.16; Sdhp.564 (ger. ˚janayitvāna)
pp sañjāta. See also Pass. saṃjāyati.

saṃ + janati

…act of perceiving by noting“).

fr. sañjānāti

the state of having perceived Dhs.4.

fr. sañjānita, pp. Caus. of sañjānāti

…saññāta.

saṃ + jānāti

Sañjāta¹

having become, produced, arisen Dhs.1035 (+ bhūta & other syn.). ˚-full of, grown into being in a state of Snp.53 (˚khandha = susaṇṭhita˚ Snp-a.103); Vv-a.312, Vv-a.318 (˚gār …

to be born or produced DN.i.220; Ja.ii.97; aor. sañjāyi DN.ii.209; Vin.i.32 ppr. -jāyamāna Ja.v.384.

saṃ + jāyati, cp. sañjanati

…saññāta; pp. of sañjānāti

…like the parallel text at Ud.17.

Caus. of sañjānāti

skilled MN.i.396.

pp. of sañjānāti

…(harbour). Titthaṃ jānāti to know a “fording place,” i.e. a means or a person to help over a difficulty or doubt MN.i.223 = AN.v.349…

…tiṭṭhantam enaṃ jānāti (he knows their “gati” Snp.1114 (see Cnd.283); āhārena tiṭṭhati Pv-a.27 (is supported by, cp….

…in formula tūleti tīreti vibhāveti (Nd ii.tul˚ tir˚, etc.) as interpretation of jānāti; pp tīrita (Nd ii.tirita) Pts.ii.200; Nd…

…(an˚); Vv-a.48, Vv-a.200 (an˚), Vv-a.234, Vv-a.260 (an˚), Vv-a.324; Pv-a.119 (for jānāti). 2. to look out for (acc.) Ja.iii.65;…

…(q.v.).

upa + jānāti

found out, learnt, known Vin.i.40; Ja.v.325, Ja.v.368; AN.i.61.

pp. of upajānāti

…MN.i.200 (= Snp.132 avajānāti), MN.i.402 sq.; DN.i.90; AN.ii.27 sq. Thag.621; DN-a.i.256 (= hīḷeti); Dhp-a.iv.38; Vv-a.348
pp…

…MN.i.200 (= Snp.132 avajānāti), MN.i.402 sq.; DN.i.90; AN.ii.27 sq. Thag.621; DN-a.i.256 (= hīḷeti); Dhp-a.iv.38; Vv-a.348
pp…

…vedeti, ceteti sañjānāti); MN.i.37; Pv.iv.1#50 (dukkhaṃ = anubhavati Pv-a.241)
■ vediyati: to feel, to…

…6), pajānāti (7), abhijānāti (8), each signifying a higher stage of (“saving”) knowledge,…

…easy to perceive Snp.92; Ja.iv.217.

fr. vijānāti

to have discriminative (dis = vi˚) knowledge, to recognize, apprehend, ascertain, to become aware of, to understand, notice, perceive, distinguish learn, know Snp.93 sq., Snp.763; Dhp.64, Dhp.65; Mnd. …

…SN.v.206 sq. (abhijānāti), SN.v.222 (ariya˚), SN.v.266, SN.v.356; AN.ii.247, AN.iii.165 (yathābhūtaṃ pajānāti), AN.iii.242,…

…“vitthāritaṃ atthaṃ jānāti,” i.e. one who knows a matter explained in detail. The spelling at AN.ii.135 is vipacita˚; at Pp.41…

…as; one expression, like jānāti passati, without being able to state their difference. With the advance in the Sangha of intensive study of…

…su˚; easily understood Vv-a.258.

grd. of vijānāti

…Vinnaya & vinnayati;

Caus. ii. of vijānāti

…e.g. DN.iii.232; Snp.1086, Snp.1122.

pp. of vijānāti

Viññāya & viññāyati

see vijānāti. Vinnuta & vinnuta

Viññāya & viññāyati

see vijānāti. Vinnuta & vinnuta

…to be the discriminating (vijānāti) of e.g. tastes or sapid things (SN.iii.87), or, again, of pleasant or painful feeling (MN.i.292). It is in no…

…omitted: atthaṃ na jānāti yaṃ lobho sahate naraṃ “he does not know good, whom greed overcomes
■ Otherwise regular, e.g….

…voc., followed by Pot. of jānāti, either 2^nd jāneyyāsi, or 3^rd sg. jāneyya; to be trsl^d somewhat like…

…(guṇa). yathābhūtaṃ pajānāti he knows as an absolute truth or in reality DN.i.83, DN.i.162; SN.iv.188 SN.v.304 & passim; ditto…

the intellectual faculty, intelligence Dhp.72 (= Dhp-a.ii.73: jānanasabhāva).

nomen agentis from jānāti

etc.: see jānāti.

to make known, to explain, to announce Ja.ii.133. Cp. jānāpeti āṇāpeti.

Caus. of jānāti, cp. also ñatti

…not known, unknown Vin.i.209; MN.i.430; SN.ii.281; Dhp-a.i.208.

pp. of jānāti = Gr. γνωτός, Lat. (g)notus; ajñāta…

relation, relative (= mātito pitito ca sambandhā Pv-a.25; = bandhū Pv-a.86; specialized as ˚sālohitā, see below). Pl. ñātayo (Pv.i.4#3; Kp-a.209 Kp-a.214) and ñātī (MN.ii.73; Kp-a.210, Kp-a.213 …

…Bhagavā jānaṁ jānāti passaṁ passati cakkhu-bhūto ñāṇa-bhūto (= he is one perfected in knowledge) MN.i.111 =…

…abstr. ˚ñutā in same combinations.

Sk -jña, from jānāti, *gn: cp. P. gū → Sk. ga

Ā¹

indeclinable a frequent prefix, used as well-defined simple base-prefix (with rootderivations), but not as modification (i.e. first part of a double prefix cpd. like sam-ā-dhi) exce …

…Ajaniya (ajaniya)

ā + jānāti

…Pv-a.4, Pv-a.39, Pv-a.81.

ā + ñāpeti, Caus. of ā + jānāti fr. jñā, cp. Sk. ājñāpayati

…ṭhānaṃ ṭhānato pajānāti (& aṭṭhānaṃ aṭṭhānato p.) to draw a logical inference from that which is a proper ground for…