जङ्गम

Sanskrit

Etymology

Affix यङ्-अच् radical reduplicated and added to the root गम् (gam, “to go, to move”)

Pronunciation

Adjective

जङ्गम • (jaṅgama)

  1. mobile
  2. movable, locomotive, moving, that which has motion as opposed to that which is stationary
    Synonym: अस्थावर (asthāvara)
    Antonym: स्थावर (sthāvara)
  3. living
  4. animate

Derived terms
  • जङ्गम दूरवाणी (jaṅgama dūravāṇī, “mobile phone”)

Noun

जङ्गम • (jaṅgama) m

  1. A movable thing
  2. A living thing
  3. An animate object
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