cl. 9. P. Ā. jānā́ti, °nīté (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 76]; Subj. °nat; Impv. °nītat, 2. sg. °nīhí, once irr. jña, [BhP. x, 89, 46]; [fr. cl. 3.] jijāhi, [MBh. xiii, 4493]; 2. pl. irr. °nata, [ii, 2397]; 2. sg. Ā. irr. °nase, [Divyāv. xviii]; p. °nát, °nāná irr. °namāna [[MBh.]]; pf. jajñau, °jñe [Pass. [Rājat. v, 481]], 3. pl. °jñúr, [RV. vii, 79, 4]; [ŚBr. xi]; p. °jñāná, [RV. x, 14, 2]; fut. jñāsyati, °te; aor. ajñāsīt, °sta Pass. ájñāyi, [vi, 65, 1] &c.; Pot. jñāyāt or jñey°, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 68] ; 2. sg. jñeyas = γνοίης [RV. ii, 10, 6]; inf. jñātum) to know, have knowledge, become acquainted with (acc.; rarely gen. [MBh. iii, 2154]; [Hariv. 7095]), perceive, apprehend, understand (also with inf. [[Pāṇ. iii, 4, 65]] [MBh. ii], [v]; [Daś.]), experience, recognise, ascertain, investigate, [RV.] &c.; to know as, know or perceive that, regard or consider as (with double acc., e.g. tasya māṃ tanayāṃ jānīta, ‘know me to be his daughter’, [MBh. iii, 2476]; with mṛṣā, ‘to consider as untrue’, [Ratnāv. ii, 18]), [Mn.] &c.; to acknowledge, approve, allow, [VS. xviii, 59 f.]; [AV. ix, 5, 19]; [ŚBr. i], [xi], [xiv]; to recognise as one's own, take possession of [SaddhP.]; to visit as a friend, [AV. x, 1, 25]; to remember (with gen.), [MBh. xii, 5169]; Ā. to engage in (gen., e.g. sarpiṣo, ‘to make an oblation with clarified butter’), [Pāṇ. i, 3, 45]; [ii, 3, 51] : Caus. jñapayati, to teach any one (acc.), [ŚāṅkhŚr. xv]; jñāp° (Pass. jñāpyate) to make known, announce, teach anything, [MBh. ii], [xii]; [Kāty.] & [Pat.]; to inform any one (gen.) that (double acc.), [MBh. i, 5864]; Ā. to request, ask, [ChUp. ii, 13, 1] (jñap°), [MBh. iii, 8762] (jñāp°) : Desid. jijñāsate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 57]; ep. also P.) to wish to know or become acquainted with or learn, investigate, examine, [Mn. ii, 13]; [MBh.] &c.; to wish for information about (acc.), [Kathās. xxii, 84]; to conjecture, [AV. xiv, 1, 56] : Caus. Desid. jijñapayiṣati (also °jñāp°, [Siddh.]) and jñīpsati (cf. °psyamāna), to wish to make known or inform, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 49] & [4, 55]; [cf. γνῶ-θι &c.]
(ā), f. N. of a woman, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 163]; [Pat.];
mfn. ifc. ‘knowing, familiar with’, see ṛta-, pada- and pra-jñā́, á-saṃ-.
f. for ā-j° (by irr. Sandhi after e and o), [MBh. i, 3168]; [iii, 16308.]