As a deity name
Name 782 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
काय · adj
प्रजापति संबंधी, जैसे, कायतीर्थ, कायहवि इत्यादि — Śabdasāgara
काय · noun · feminine
शरीर । देह । बदन । जिस्म — Śabdasāgara
काय · kāya · s.m.
The body, &c. (see kāyā) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 809
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the body, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (11)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kāya" is the dative of "ka" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. kāya mf(ī)n. (fr. 3. ka, Pāṇ. iv, 2, 25), relating or devoted to the god Ka (Prajā-pati, RV. x, 121), VS.; TS.; ŚBr. &c.;
kāya (as), m. one of the eight modes of marriage (= Prājāpatya See vivāha), Mn. iii, 38; Yājñ. i, 60
kāya (am), n. part of the hand sacred to Prajā-pati, the root of the little finger, Mn. ii, 58 and 59.
2. kāya m. (√ ci, Pāṇ. iii, 3, 41), the body, KātyŚr.; Mn. &c.
the trunk of a tree, R.
1. ka the first consonant of the alphabet, and the first guttural letter (corresponding in sound to k in keep or king).
2. ka kas, kā, kim, interrog. pron. (see kim and 2. kad, and cf. the following words in which the interrogative base ka appears, katama, katara, kati, katham, kadā, karhi, kā, &c.), who? which? what? In its declension ka follows the pronoun tad except in nom. acc. sing. neut., where kim has taken the place of kad or kat in classical Sanskṛt; but the old form kad is found in the Veda (see Gram. 227);
Alternative readings
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