ājānāti
Ājānāti,[ā + jānāti] to understand,to know,to learn D.I,189; Sn.1064 (°amāna = vijānamāna Nd2 120). As aññāti at Vism.200. -- pp. aññāta. Cp. also āṇāpeti. Ājāniya (ājānīya) (adj. n.) [cp. BSk. ājāneya & Sk. ājāti birth,good birth. Instead of its correct derivation from ā + jan (to be born,i. e. well-born) it is by Bdhgh. connected with ā + jñā (to learn,i. e. to be trained). See for these popular etym. e. g. J.I,181:sārathissa cittarucitaṁ kāraṇaṁ ājānana-sabhāvo ājañño,and DhA.IV,4:yaṁ assadamma-sārathi kāraṇaṁ kāreti tassa khippaṁ jānana‹-› samatthā ājāniyā. -- The contracted form of the word is ājañña] of good race or breed; almost exclusively used to denote a thoroughbred horse (cp. assājāniya under assa3). (a) ājāniya (the more common & younger Pāli form):Sn.462,528,532; J.I,178,194; Dpvs.IV,26; DhA.I,402; III,49; IV,4; VvA.78; PvA.216. -- (b) ājānīya: M.I,445; A.V,323; Dh.322 = Nd2 475. -- (c) ǡjañña = (mostly in poetry):Sn.300 = 304; J.I,181; Pv IV.154; purisājañña “a steed of man”,i. e. a man of noble race) S.III,91 = Th.1,1084 = Sn.544 = VvA.9; A.V,325. --anājāniya of inferior birth M.I,367.
--susu the young of a noble horse,a noble foal M.I,445 (°ûpamo dhamma-pariyāyo). (Page 96)