As a Hindi name
काश्मीर · noun · masculine
एक देश का नाम । दे॰ 'कशमीर' । २ कश्मीर का निवासी · कश्मीर में उत्पन्न वस्तु · पुष्कर मूल — Śabdasāgara
काश्मीर · adj
कश्मीर में उत्पन्न । कश्मीर का — Śabdasāgara
कश्मीर · masculine
Kashmir (a contested geographic region of South Asia in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) India, Pakistan and China)
काश्मीर
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कश्मीर — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कश्मीर (kaśmīra), which is probably a contraction of कश्यपमीर (kaśyapamīra) or कश्यपमेरु (kaśyapameru).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kaśmīra m. pl. (ifc. f(ā). ; √ kaś ? perhaps contraction of kaśyapa-mīra; cf. Rājat. i, 25; R. i, 70, 19), N. of a country and of the people inhabiting it (cf. kāśmīra) g. bhargādi, Pāṇ. iv, 1, 178
saṅkāśādi, iv, 2, 80
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the tuberous root of the plant Costus speciosus
Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kāśmīra" is the vocative of "kāśmīrā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
kāśmīra mf(ī)n. (gaṇas kacchādi and sindhv-ādi) born in or coming from Kaśmīra, MBh. iv, 254
kāśmīra m. a king of Kaśmīra, Mudr.; Kathās.
the country Kaśmīra, MBh. &c.
kāśmīra m. pl. the inhabitants of Kaśmīra, ib.
kāśmīra m. the country Kaśmīra, ib.
kāśmīrā f. a sort of grape, L.
Alternative readings
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