गति

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit गति (gati).

Noun

गति • (gati) f (Urdu spelling گتی‎)

1. motion

   हम इस योजना को गति देने की आवश्यकता है।

   ham is yojnā ko gati dene kī āvaśyaktā hai.

   We must set this plan in motion.

2. speed

   उसने पूरी गति से दीवार मारा।

   usne pūrī gati se dīvār mārā.

   He hit the wall at full speed.

3. plight

   तुम्हारी वही गति होगी जो चोर की हुई थी।

   tumhārī vahī gati hogī jo cor kī huī thī.

   You will meet the plight of a thief.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *gátiṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gátiš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis. Cognate with Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), Proto-Germanic *kumþiz.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɐ́.t̪i/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ.t̪i/

Noun

गति • (gáti) f

1. going, moving, gait, deportment, motion in general
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.64.3

     यन्नूनमश्यां गतिं मित्रस्य यायां पथा ।
     अस्य प्रियस्य शर्मण्यहिंसानस्य सश्चिरे ॥

     yannūnamaśyāṃ gatiṃ mitrasya yāyāṃ pathā .
     asya priyasya śarmaṇyahiṃsānasya saścire .

     That I may gain a refuge now, may my steps be on Mitra's path.
     Men go protected in the charge of this dear Friend who harms us not.

2. manner or power of going
3. procession, march, passage, procedure, progress, movement
4. path, way, course
5. place of issue, origin, reason
6. possibility, expedient, means
7. means of success
8. way or art, method of acting
9. refuge, resource
10. the position (of a child at birth)
11. state, condition, situation, proportion, mode of existence
12. a happy issue; happiness
13. the course of the soul through numerous forms of life, metempsychosis, condition of a person undergoing this migration
14. manner
15. the being understood or meant
16. (grammar) a term for prepositions and some other adverbial prefixes when immediately connected with the tenses of a verb or with verbal derivatives
17. a kind of rhetorical figure
18. a particular high number
19. Motion (personified as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Pulaha)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 347