कचहरी

Hindi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-

Sanskrit कृ (kṛ)

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Sanskrit -य (-ya)

Sanskrit कृत्य (kṛtya)

Ashokan Prakrit 𑀓𑀘 (kaca)

Proto-New Indo-Aryan 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘 (kacca)

Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰr̥dʰás

Sanskrit गृह (gṛha)

Proto-Middle Indo-Aryan *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha)

Proto-New Indo-Aryan 𑀖𑀭 (ghara)

Proto-New Indo-Aryan *𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀳𑀭𑀺𑀆 (*kaccahariā)

Hindi कचहरी

Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀳𑀭𑀺𑀆 (*kaccahariā, “courthouse”); compare Sanskrit कृत्य (kṛ́tya, “action”) + गृह (gṛha, “house”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-). Cognate with Assamese কাচাৰী (kasari), Bengali কাছারী (kachari), Odia କଚିରି (kaciri), Punjabi ਕਚਹਿਰੀ (kachirī), and Sindhi ڪَچَهَريِ (kachaharī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /kə.t͡ʃəɦ.ɾiː/, [kɐ.t͡ʃɛʱ.ɾiː]

Noun

कचहरी • (kacahrī) f (Urdu spelling کَچَہْرِی)

1. (law) court

   Synonyms: न्यायालय (nyāyālay), अदालत (adālat), कोर्ट (korṭ)

2. group, crowd

Declension

Declension of कचहरी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	कचहरी kacahrī	कचहरियाँ kacahriyā̃
oblique	कचहरी kacahrī	कचहरियों kacahriyõ
vocative	कचहरी kacahrī	कचहरियो kacahriyo

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કચેરી (kacerī)
• → Marathi: कचेरी (kacerī)
  • → Kannada: ಕಚೇರಿ (kacēri)
  • → Malayalam: കച്ചേരി (kaccēri)
  • → Tamil: கச்சேரி (kaccēri)
    • → English: cutcherry
  • → Telugu: కచేరీ (kacērī)

Further reading

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “कचहरी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 156
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kr̥tyagharikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 178