Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“poison”) 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 (“poison”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
कोष · noun · masculine
अंड । अंडा · संपुट । डिब्बा । गोलक । जैसे, नेत्रकोश · फूलों की बँधी कली — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ कोश
कोश · masculine
treasury, store; dictionary, lexicon
कोष · masculine
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कोश — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit कोश (kośa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kośa m. (n., L.; in class. literature kośa, or koṣa; fr. √ kuś or kuṣ?, related to kukṣi and koṣṭha?), a cask, vessel for holding liquids, (metaphorically) cloud, RV.; AV.; Suśr.
a pail, bucket, RV.
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
pl. (g. pacādi), N. of a family of priests
Verified derivationMultiple readings (10)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "koṣa" is the vocative of "koṣā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. koṣa See kośa.
2. koṣa ās, m. pl. (g. pacādi), N. of a family of priests, ŚBr. x, 5, 5, 8
koṣa mn. (-ṣaḥ-ṣaṃ) 1 A bud. 2 A sheathe, a scabbard, &c. 3 A coat, a surrounding cover, any investing sheathe. 4 Judicial trial by oath or ordeal, or by fire, water, poison, the balance, heated balls of iron, boiling oil, &c. attesting a deity, and touching or drinking water three times in which some idol has been washed. 5 Gold or silver, wrought or unwrought, as plate, jewellery, &c. 6 Wealth. 7 Accumulated wealth, treasure. 8 A treasury, the apartment where money or plate is kept. 9 A sacrificial vessel or any drinking vessel. 10 The vulva, the womb. 11 The penis. 12 A testicle or the scrotum. 13 An egg. 14 (In composition,) A ball or globe, as sūtrakīṣa a ball of thread, netrakoṣa the eyeball, &c. 15 The inner part of the Jack-fruit or its like. 16 A nutmeg. 17 A dictionary or vocabulary. f. (-ṣī) 1 A shoe, a sandal. 2 The beard of corn: see kośa. E. kuśa or kuṣa to issue, affix ghañ; hence the word is optionally koṣa or kośa; the meanings may be mostly resolved into, that from which something issues or evolves.
koṣā (ā), f. ‘N. of a river’ v.l. for kośā.
Alternative readings
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