Engineer

Today, while reading Amitabh Bachhan's Facebook page, I came accross this post from Amitabh: "The word "Engineer" is derived from "Anjaneyar" (or Hanuman), who built a bridge and didn't ever hang around with girls."

This evidently does not hold any meaning.

Merriam Websters tell that the word Engineer comes from Engine from Old French engin, which stands for 'skill, cleverness', and also used for 'Trick and deceit'.


A synonym for Deceitful person is 'crafty'. The sanskrit word that comes possibly closest to 'crafty' is 'कपटि' which is used for a sly and cunning fellow.
 
These days, medical profession has turned into the biggest hotbed for cunning, wealth hungry कपटि 'professionals'. This, evidently was as much true in ancient times as it is these days, as can be seen from this beautiful two-liner:
 
वैद्यराज! नमस्तुभ्य्म यमराजसहोदर:।
यम: हरति प्राणान, वैद्य: प्राणान, धनानि च।
 
The वैद्य, or doctor is compared with यमराज, the God of death Himself. But the poet places Yama in a higher enteem and respect, than the Doctor, beacuse, Yama completes his job by robbing rhe person on deathbed of his life, but the doctor (assumed to be a कपटि blinded by avarice) not only robs him of his life, but also robs him of money!
 
A good practical exmaple of ’कपटि’ or crafty person.

Etymology-2

In Mahabharat, when army of Shri Rama reaches Sri Lanka, Ram laments over his separation from the motherland India and says to Lakshman:

अपि स्वर्णमयी लंका न में लक्ष्मण रोचते
जननी जन्माभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी

Translates to: Oh Lakshman, I am amazed by the spectacular golden beauty of Lanka, but its a trifle compared to my motherland (जननी जन्माभूमि), India which still holds the dignity, in my Heart, above even the Holiest of holy Heaven.

The word under focus here is 'जननी' which means mother. This word manifests itself in different languages, including English in different forms.
The basic form, a 'मूळ धातू’ of sort for this word is 'जनन', which is a generic word for anything related to birth. In marathi, 'जन्म’ means birth. 'प्रजनन’ in Sanskrit is the 'Act of reproduction'.
Intrestingly, English also uses this word in differnt form but with similar meaning. 'Genesis' is the 'Book of the begining' in Bible. 'Genesis' comes from the Latin 'Genus', meaning 'Birth'. Genetics is the science of the Genesis.
Medical science has adopted the word 'Gene' to represent a sequence of DNA, to represent the functional unit of inheretance.

Etymology-1

Here is the first attempt to satiate an inquisitive endeavor to discover a connection between etymologies of words used in English, Hindi, Sanskit and Marathi:

A beautiful Sanskrit verse in the praise of Devi Saraswati goes like this:

या कुन्देन्दु- तुषारहार- धवला या शुभ्र- वस्त्रावृता
या वीणावरदण्डमन्डितकरा या श्वेतपद्मासना
या ब्रह्माच्युत- शंकर- प्रभृतिभिर्देवैः सदा पूजिता
सा मां पातु सरस्वती भगवती निःशेषजाड्यापहा

The last word of this prose is निःशेषजाड्यापहा which has a सन्धि विग्रह as: निःशेष + जाड्य + अपहा
which translates to the destroyer(अपहा) of Indecision (निःशेष) and lethargy (जाड्य).
My curiousity revolves around the word 'जाड्य'. This word has roots in Marathi in the form of ’जड’ meaning 'heavy'. A noun derived from ’जड’ is 'जाड्य' which means heaviness, which in turn is the essence, in which the word is used here, that is 'Inertia'.
The more curious take on this etymology comes in the form of the English word 'Jade' which, according to m-w, translates to " to wear out by overwork or abuse ", which is in substance, is the very meaning of 'जाड्य'.

Interesting etymology

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