जातिः [jātiḥ] f. f. [जन्-क्तिन्]
Birth, production, सङ्कुलं जल- जातिभिः
[Rām.3.11.6;] [Pt.1.38;] [Ms.2.148;] also 'the time of birth'; cf. जातौ बाल्ये च कौमारे यौवने चापि मानवाः
[Mb.12.158.11.] The form of existence fixed by birth.
Race, family, lineage, rank.
A caste, tribe or class (of men); अरे मूढ जात्या चेदवध्योऽहं एषा सा जातिः परित्यक्ता
[Ve.3;] (the primary castes of the Hindus are only four: ब्राह्मण, क्षत्रिय, वैश्य and शूद्र).
A class, genus, kind, species; पशुजातिः, पुष्पजातिः &c.
The properties which are peculiar to a class and distinguish it from all others, the essential characteristics of a species; as गोत्व, अश्वत्व of cows, horses &c.; see गुण, क्रिया and द्रव्य; जातिक्रियागुणैः
[Śi.2.47;] and cf.
[K. P.2.] A fire-place.
Nutmeg.
The Jasmine plant or its flower; नागपुन्नागजातिभिः
[Bhāg.8.2.18;] पुष्पाणां प्रकरः स्मितेन रचितो नो कुन्दजात्यादिभिः Amaru.4 (written also as जाती in the last two senses).
(In
[Nyāya] ) Futile answer.
(In music) The seven primary notes of the Indian gamut; जातिभिः सप्तभिर्युक्तं तन्त्रीलयसमन्वितम्
[Rām.1.4.8.] Reduction of fractions to a common denominator.
False generalization.
A figure of speech (in rhetoric) which consists in so arranging words that they may read the same in Sanskṛit as well as in Prākṛita (संस्कृतप्राकृतयोः समा जातिः); cf.
[Vb.1.3.] A class of metres; see App. -Comp.
-अन्ध a. a. born blind;
[Bh.1.9.] -कोशः, -षः, -षम् nutmeg.
-कोशी, -षी the outer skin of the nutmeg.
-क्षयः (= जन्मोच्छेदः) the end of birth, spiritual release. जातिक्षयस्यासुलभस्य बोद्धा
[Bu. Ch.1.74.] -गृद्धिः f. f. to take birth; जातिगृद्धयाभिपन्नाः
[Mb.5.6.9.] -जानपद a. a. belonging to the castes and to the country; जातिजानपदान् धर्मान्
[Ms.8.41.] धर्मः the duties of a caste.
a generic property.-ध्वंसः loss of caste or its privileges.
-फलम् (sometimes जातीफलम् also) a nutmeg; जातीफलं मातुलानीमहिफेनं च पत्रकम्
[Śiva. B.3.15.] -ब्राह्मणः a Brāhmaṇa only by birth, but not by knowledge or religious austerities, an ignorant Brāhmaṇa; (तपः श्रुतं च योनिश्च त्रयं ब्राह्मण्यकारणम् । तपःश्रुताभ्यां यो हीनो जातिब्राह्मण एव सः ॥ शब्दार्थचिन्तामणि)
-भ्रंशः loss of caste;
[Ms.11.67.] -भ्रष्ट a. a. outcaste.
-महः birth-day festival.
मात्रम् 'mere birth', position in life obtained by mere birth.
caste only (but not the performance of duties pertaining to it);
[Ms.8.2;] 12.114.
species, genus.
-लक्षणम् generic distinction, a characteristic of a class.
-वाचक a. a. expressing a genus, generic (as a word); गौरश्वः पुरुषो हस्ती.
-वैरम् instinctive or natural hostility.
-वैरिन् m. m. a born enemy.
-वैलक्षण्यम् inconsistency, incompatibility in kind.
-शब्दः a name conveying the idea of a genus, a generic word, common noun; गौः, अश्वः, पुरुषः, हस्ती &c.-संकरः admixture of castes; mixed blood.
-संपन्न a. a. belonging to a noble family.
-स्मर a. a. remembering one's condition in a former life; जातिस्मरो मुनिरस्मि जात्या
[K.355.] -स्वभावः generic character or nature.
-हीन a. a. of low birth, outcaste; रूपद्रव्यविहीनांश्च जातिहीनांश्च नाक्षिपेत्
[Ms.4.141;1.35.]