As a Hindi name
कुठार · noun · masculine
कुल्हाड़ी · परशु · नाश करनेवाला । सत्यनाशी । कुलकुठार — Śabdasāgara
कुठार · noun · masculine
अनाज आदि रखने का बड़ा बरतन । कोठिला — Śabdasāgara
कुठार · kuṭhār · s.m.
An axe, a hatchet; a sort of hoe or spade — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 815
Cited formation "कुठार" is कु- + ठार: ठार means "Determination", and the prefix कु- forms bad, evil. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(20) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
an axe, &c.
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Dictionary citations
kuṭhāra m. an axe, R.; Bhartṛ. &c.
a sort of hoe or spade, W.
a tree (= kuṭha), L.
N. of a man g. śivādi
of a Nāga, MBh. i, 2156
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