As a deity name
Name 940 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
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.
Śabdasāgara also records: घुँघची । गुंजा · पणा का चतुर्थ भाग जो पाँच गंडे कौड़ियों का होता है
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
the fourth part of a Paṇa
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kākinī" is the vocative dual of "kāki" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
kākinī f. the fourth part of a Paṇa, Hit.
a quarter of a Māna, L.
the seed Abrus precatorius, L.
the shell Cypraea moneta, L.
a kind of Svarabhakti, Māṇḍūkī Śikṣā ix, 13;
kāki m. a son or descendant of Kāka g. vākinādi.
Alternative readings
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