ʒanel

Romani

Alternative forms

• janel, zsánel
• zhanel (Anglicized)
• džanel (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀚𑀸𑀡𑀤𑀺 (jāṇadi), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀚𑀸𑀦𑀢𑀺 (jānati), from Sanskrit जानाति (jānā́ti). Cognates include Hindi जानना (jānnā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒanel/, /ˈʒanel/

Verb

ʒanel

1. (International Standard) to know

   Voj na ʒanel so te del dùma. ― She doesn't know what to say.

   Tu ʒanes la? ― Do you know her?

Descendants

• → Romanian: gini (“to notice, to observe, to pay attention to”)

References

• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “džanél”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 82
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ʒan/el, -dǎs”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 386