کنیا

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲeɲ.jɒː]

Readings
Iranian reading?	kenyâ

Proper noun

کنیا • (kenyâ)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कन्या (kanyā). Doublet of کَنِیز (kanīz).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kən.jɑː/, /kə.nɪ.jɑː/, /kən.nɪ.jɑː/

Proper noun

کَنْیا or کَنِْیا or کَنِّیا • (kanyā or kaniyā or kanniyā) f (Hindi spelling कन्या or कनिया)

1. (astronomy) synonym of سُن٘بَلَہ (sumbala, “Virgo”)

Noun

کَنْیا or کَنِْیا or کَنِّیا • (kanyā or kaniyā or kanniyā) f (Hindi spelling कन्या or कनिया)

1. girl; daughter

   Synonym: لَڑْکِی (laṛkī)

2. virgin, maiden

   Synonym: کُن٘وارِی (kũvārī)

Derived terms

• کَنْیا دان (kanyā dān, “giving a girl in marriage”)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “کنیا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1383
• Platts, John T. (1884), “کنیا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 857
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “کنیا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 500
• “کنیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “کنیا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1383
• “کنیا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.