As a deity name
Name 379 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 310 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 593 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 645 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
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
according to desire, agreeably to the wishes of, out of love for (gen. or dat.)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (11)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kāmāya" is the dative of "kāma" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "kāma" is derived from "kām" with the aṇ/añ suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
kām ind. an interjection used in calling out to another, L.
kām ind. An interjection used in calling out to another.
kāma &c. See s.v.
kāma m. (fr. √ 2. kam; once kāma, VS. xx, 60), wish, desire, longing (kāmo me bhuñjīta bhavān, my wish is that you should eat, Pāṇ. iii, 3, 153), desire for, longing after (gen. dat., or loc.), love, affection, object of desire or of love or of pleasure, RV.; VS.; TS.; AV.; ŚBr.; MBh.; R. &c.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
kā˚māya ind. according to desire, agreeably to the wishes of, out of love for (gen. or dat.), RV.; AV.; TS.; ŚBr.; ChUp.
kāma &c. See s.v.
kāma m. (fr. √ 2. kam; once kāma, VS. xx, 60), wish, desire, longing (kāmo me bhuñjīta bhavān, my wish is that you should eat, Pāṇ. iii, 3, 153), desire for, longing after (gen. dat., or loc.), love, affection, object of desire or of love or of pleasure, RV.; VS.; TS.; AV.; ŚBr.; MBh.; R. &c.
kām ind. an interjection used in calling out to another, L.
kām ind. An interjection used in calling out to another.
Alternative readings
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