As a deity name
Name 297 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
क्या
initial interrogative particle
क्या · feminine,masculine
what?; such, what, how; used after a noun or तो to indicate something being not as great.
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit किम् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀺𑀁 (kiṃ), 𑀓𑀺 (ki), from Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what, which”). Compare Punjabi ਕੀ (kī), Gujarati કિયું (kiyũ), Marathi की (kī), Bengali কী (ki), Assamese কি (ki) or Kashmiri کیاہ.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kim ind. (fr. 1. ki, originally nom. and acc. sg. n. of 2. ka, q.v.), what? how? whence? wherefore? why?
kim is much used as a particle of interrogation like the Lat. num, an, sometimes translatable by ‘whether?’ but oftener serving only like a note of interrogation to mark a question (e.g. kiṃ vyādhā vane 'smin saṃcaranti, ‘do hunters roam about in this wood?’ In an interrogation the verb, if uncompounded with a preposition, generally retains its accent after kim, Pāṇ. viii, 1, 44). To this sense may be referred the kim expressing inferiority, deficiency, &c. at the beginning of compounds (e.g. kiṃ-rājan, what sort of king? i.e. a bad king, Pāṇ. ii, 1, 64; v, 4, 70)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
N. of Śiva
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M1 · same meaning "kāhalaye" is the dative of "kāhali" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "kāhalaye" is the dative of "kāhalī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
kāhali m. N. of Śiva, MBh. xiii, 1179.
kāhalī f. a young woman, L.
N. of Varuṇa's wife, L.
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