# गण
## Hindi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit गण (gaṇa).

### Pronunciation

* (Delhi) IPA: /ɡəɳ/, [ɡɐ̃ɳ], /ɡən/, [ɡɐ̃n]

### Noun

गण • (gaṇ) m
* flock, troop, group, company, order
* company of men formed with common goals
    लुटेरों का गण ― luṭerõ kā gaṇ ― group of bandits
* class (of beings or objects)
* a body of followers or attendants
* (in the plural) dependants, servants; attendant deities
* (taxonomy) order
* (prosody) a group of mantras comprising a foot
* (grammar) collective plural marker

#### Related terms

* प्रक्षेत्र (prakṣetra), अधिजगत (adhijgat)
* जगत (jagat)
* संघ (saṅgh)
* वर्ग (varg)
* गण (gaṇ)
* कुल (kul)
* वंश (vañś)
* जाति (jāti)
* जगण (jagaṇ)
* तगण (tagaṇ)
* देवगण (devgaṇ)
* नगण (nagaṇ)
* भगण (bhagaṇ)
* यगण (yagaṇ)
* रगण (ragaṇ)
* लगण (lagaṇ)
* सगण (sagaṇ)

### References

* McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “गण”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* gaṇa (Latin script)
* 𑀕𑀡 (Brahmi script)
* গণ (Bengali script)
* ගණ (Sinhalese script)
* ဂဏ or ၷꧣ (Burmese script)
* คณ or คะณะ (Thai script)
* ᨣᨱ (Tai Tham script)
* ຄຓ or ຄະຓະ or ຄະນະ (Lao script)
* គណ (Khmer script)
* 𑄉𑄕 (Chakma script)

### Noun

गण m
* Devanagari script form of gaṇa

#### Declension
## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* গণ (Assamese script)
* ᬕᬡ (Balinese script)
* গণ (Bengali script)
* 𑰐𑰜 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀕𑀡 (Brahmi script)
* ဂဏ (Burmese script)
* ગણ (Gujarati script)
* ਗਣ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌗𑌣 (Grantha script)
* ꦒꦟ (Javanese script)
* 𑂏𑂝 (Kaithi script)
* ಗಣ (Kannada script)
* គណ (Khmer script)
* ຄຓ (Lao script)
* ഗണ (Malayalam script)
* ᡤᠠᢏᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘐𑘜 (Modi script)
* ᠺᠠᢏᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
* 𑦰𑦼 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐐𑐞 (Newa script)
* ଗଣ (Odia script)
* ꢔꢠ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆓𑆟 (Sharada script)
* 𑖐𑖜 (Siddham script)
* ගණ (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩞𑩪 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚌𑚘 (Takri script)
* க³ண (Tamil script)
* గణ (Telugu script)
* คณ (Thai script)
* ག་ཎ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒑𑒝 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨍𑨘 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From the root गण् (gaṇ, “to calculate, count”) +‎ -अ (-a)

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /ɡɐ.ɳɐ́/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /ɡɐ.ɳɐ/

### Noun

गण • (gaṇá) stem, m
* a flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, series, class (of animate or inanimate beings), body of followers or attendants
* (Hinduism) troops or classes of inferior deities (especially certain troops of demi-gods considered as Shiva's attendants and under the special superintendence of the god Ganesha)
* a company, any assemblage or association of men formed for the attainment of the same aims
* a small body of troops (= 3 गुल्मs or 27 chariots and as many elephants, 81 horses, and 135 foot)
* (astronomy) a series or group of asterisms or lunar mansions classed under three heads (that of the gods, that of the men, and that of the राक्षसs)
* (arithmetic) a number
* (grammar) a series of roots or words following the same rule and called after the first word of the series (e.g. अद्-आदि, the g. अद् &c. or the whole series of roots of the 2nd class ; गर्गादि, the g. गर्ग &c. or the series of words commencing with गर्ग)

#### Declension

* ¹Vedic

#### Descendants

* Dardic:
** Torwali: گن (gan)
* Pali: gaṇa
** → Burmese: ဂိုဏ်း (guin:)
* → Old Javanese: gaṇa
** > Javanese: ꦒꦤ (gana) (inherited)
** → Balinese: ᬕᬡ (gana)
* → Tamil: கணம் (kaṇam) (learned)

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “गण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0343.