As a Hindi name
काग · noun · masculine
कौआ । वायस — Śabdasāgara
काग · noun · masculine
बलूत की जाति का एक बड़ा पेड़ · बोतल या शीशी की डाट जो काग नामक पेड़ की छाल से बनती है — Śabdasāgara
काग · kāg · s.m.
A crow; a raven — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 802
काग · masculine
crow
काग · masculine
cork
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit काक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit काक (kāka), of Onomatopoeic origin.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kāka m. (onomat. imitation of the cawing of the crow, cf. √ kai, Nir. iii, 18; Uṇ.), a crow, AdbhBr.; Mn.; MBh.; R.; Suśr.; Hit.
(metaphorically, as an expression of contempt, e.g. na tvāṃ kākaṃ manye, I rate thee less than a crow, Pāṇ. ii, 3, 17; Pat.; cf. tīrtha-kāka Comm. on Pāṇ. ii, 1, 42)
a Hindi word of English origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Modified from English cork.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a crow (in Prākṛt dialects ‘a raven’)
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Dictionary citations
kāga m. (cf. kāka) a crow (in Prākṛt dialects ‘a raven’), L.
kāga m. (-gaḥ) A crow: (in the dialects, a raven.) E. kā an imitative sound, and ga who sings, from gai with ḍa or ka aff.
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