Hindi

Noun

गति • ‎(gati) f ‎(Urdu spelling گتی)

1. motion

   हम इस योजना को गति देने की आवश्यकता है।

   We must set this plan in motion.

2. speed

   उसने पूरी गति से दीवार मारा।

   He hit the wall at full speed.

3. plight

   तुम्हारी वही गति होगी जो चोर की हुई थी।

   You will meet the plight of a thief.

Synonyms

• (motion, speed): रफ़्तार ‎(raftār)

References

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “गति”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis.

Noun

गति • ‎(gáti) f

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

Declension

Related terms

• गच्छति ‎(gacchati)
• गम् ‎(gam)

Descendants

• Hindi: गति ‎(gati)
• Telugu: గతి ‎(gati)

References

• Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, page 347