Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“diseases”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“diseases”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
क्या
initial interrogative particle
क्या · feminine,masculine
what?; such, what, how; used after a noun or तो to indicate something being not as great.
Śabdasāgara also records: कच्चा · जी का कच्चा । कायर । डरपोक
Platts (p. 799) also records: Glass; crystal
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit किम् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀺𑀁 (kiṃ), 𑀓𑀺 (ki), from Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what, which”). Compare Punjabi ਕੀ (kī), Gujarati કિયું (kiyũ), Marathi की (kī), Bengali কী (ki), Assamese কি (ki) or Kashmiri کیاہ.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kim ind. (fr. 1. ki, originally nom. and acc. sg. n. of 2. ka, q.v.), what? how? whence? wherefore? why?
kim is much used as a particle of interrogation like the Lat. num, an, sometimes translatable by ‘whether?’ but oftener serving only like a note of interrogation to mark a question (e.g. kiṃ vyādhā vane 'smin saṃcaranti, ‘do hunters roam about in this wood?’ In an interrogation the verb, if uncompounded with a preposition, generally retains its accent after kim, Pāṇ. viii, 1, 44). To this sense may be referred the kim expressing inferiority, deficiency, &c. at the beginning of compounds (e.g. kiṃ-rājan, what sort of king? i.e. a bad king, Pāṇ. ii, 1, 64; v, 4, 70)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
crystal or quartz (used as an ornament)
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Dictionary citations
kāca as, m. (√ kac) glass, Suśr.; Pañcat.; Kathās.
(pl. glass pearls), ŚBr. xiii, 2, 6, 8
crystal or quartz (used as an ornament), W.
alkaline ashes, any salt of potash or soda in a crystalline state, W.
a class of diseases of the eye (especially an affection of the optic nerve or gutta serena), Suśr.
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