As a deity name
Name 690 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 156 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
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
a girdle (especially a woman's zone or girdle furnished with small bells and other ornaments, raśanā)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kāñcī" is the nominative dual of "kāñci" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
kāñcī f. (fr. √ kac; cf. kāñci) a girdle (especially a woman's zone or girdle furnished with small bells and other ornaments, raśanā), R.; Ragh.; Megh.; BhP.; Suśr.
the plant Abrus precatorius, L.
N. of an ancient city (one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindūs, now Koñjīvaram, not very far from Madras = kāñcī-varam, -puram, RTL. p. 446), VarBṛS.; BhP. &c.
kāñcī f. (-ñcī) 1 A woman's zone or girdle. 2 The name of an ancient city situated in the peninsula, and one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus. 3 A plant, (Abrus precatorious): see guñcā. E. kāci to bind or shine, ina or ṅīṣ affixes; whence also kāñci.
kāñci m. pl. N. of a people, MBh. i, 6684
kāñci f. = kāñcī Comm. on Uṇ. iv, 117
Caveats
Sources contain errors and engines have limits; every claim above carries its citation so you can verify it. This is guidance about names and their sources — not religious or astrological consultation. How we work · Our sources