जैसा
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Etymology
Inherited from Old Hindi जैसा (jaisā), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀚𑀇𑀲 (jaïsa), from Sanskrit यादृश (yādṛśa). Cognate to Punjabi ਜਿਹਾ (jihā).
Pronunciation
Determiner
जैसा • (jaisā) (Urdu spelling جیسا) (relative)
Postposition
जैसा • (jaisā)
Declension
Declension of जैसा (ā-stem)
Adverb
जैसा • (jaisā) (Urdu spelling جیسا)
- so, just as
Conjunction
जैसा • (jaisā) (Urdu spelling جیسا)
Coordinate terms
type | interrogative | relative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | indefinite | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
basic | non-emphatic | कौन (kaun, “who?”), क्या (kyā, “what?”) |
जो (jo) | यह (yah) | वह (vah) | कुछ (kuch), कोई (koī), कुछ-न-कुछ (kuch-na-kuch), कोई-न-कोई (koī-na-koī) | |
emphatic | - | जो भी (jo bhī) | यही (yahī) | वही (vahī) | कोई भी (koī bhī), कुछ भी (kuch bhī) | ||
time | non-emphatic | कब (kab) | जब (jab) | अब (ab) | तब (tab) | कभी (kabhī) | |
emphatic | - | जभी (jabhī) | अभी (abhī) | तभी (tabhī) | कभी भी (kabhī bhī) | ||
place | non-emphatic | कहाँ (kahā̃) | जहाँ (jahā̃) | यहाँ (yahā̃) | वहाँ (vahā̃) | कहीं (kahī̃, “somewhere”) | |
emphatic | - | जहीं (jahī̃) | यहीं (yahī̃) | वहीं (vahī̃) | कहीं भी (kahī̃ bhī, “anywhere”) | ||
quantity | कितना (kitnā) | जितना (jitnā) | इतना (itnā) | उतना (utnā) | - | ||
direction | किधर (kidhar) | जिधर (jidhar) | इधर (idhar) | उधर (udhar) | - | ||
quality | कैसा (kaisā) | जैसा (jaisā) | ऐसा (aisā) | वैसा (vaisā), तैसा m (taisā) | कोई सा (koī sā) | ||
manner | कैसे (kaise) | जैसे (jaise) | ऐसे (aise), | वैसे (vaise), तैसे (taise) | - | ||
reason/manner | क्यों (kyõ) | ज्यों (jyõ) | क्योंकि (kyõki), यों (yõ) | त्यों (tyõ) |
Derived terms
- जैसे कि (jaise ki, “such as”), जैसे कि (jaise ki)
- जैसे ही (jaise hī, “as soon as”)
- जैसे को तैसा (jaise ko taisā, “tit-for-tat”)
References
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 304
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “yādrśa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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- Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit
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- Hindi lemmas
- Hindi determiners
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- Hindi postpositions
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