As a Hindi name
केश · noun · masculine
सिर का बाल · रश्मि । किरण · ब्रह्मा की शक्ति का एक भेद — Śabdasāgara
केश · keśa · s.m.
f. Hair (of the head); mane (of a horse, or a lion); crest or comb (of a cock) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 889
केश · masculine
hair
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi केश — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit केश (kéśa). Cognate with Marathi केस (kes).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. keśa m. (√ kliś, Uṇ.; ifc. ā or ī, Pāṇ. iv, 1, 54) the hair of the head, AV.; VS.; ŚBr. &c.
the mane (of a horse or lion), MBh. i, 8008; Śak., Sch.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the hair of the head, &c.
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Dictionary citations
1. keśa m. (√ kliś, Uṇ.; ifc. ā or ī, Pāṇ. iv, 1, 54) the hair of the head, AV.; VS.; ŚBr. &c.
the mane (of a horse or lion), MBh. i, 8008; Śak., Sch.
a kind of perfume (hrīvera), L.
N. of a mineral, VarBṛS. lxxvii, 23
N. of Varuṇa, L.
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