As a Hindi name
कुख्याति · noun · feminine
निंदा । बदनामी — Śabdasāgara
कुख्याति · ku-khyāti · s.f.
Evil report, infamy, disrepute — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 840
कुख्याति · feminine
infamy, ill-repute, notoriety
Cited formation "कुख्याति" is कु- + ख्याति: ख्याति means "fame, renown, reputation", and the prefix कु- forms bad, evil. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(20) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कुख्याति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit कुख्याति (kukhyāti).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ku—khyāti f. evil report, infamy
bad reputation.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
bad reputation.
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Dictionary citations
ku—khyāti f. evil report, infamy
bad reputation.
ku-khyāti &c. See ib.
kukhyāti f. (-tiḥ) Evil report, infamy. E. ku bad, and khyāti fame.
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