कबाड़

Hindi

Etymology

Unknown.

Perhaps from Sanskrit *कर्व (*karva) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-) + -𑀟- (-ḍa-), a variant of Sanskrit खर्व (kharva, “mutilated; low”) that can be reconstructed from cognates such as Punjabi ਕੱਬ (kabba, “crookedness, perverseness”) and ਕੱਬਾ (kabbā, “rude”), Khetrani کَبّا (kabbā, “left hand”). Compare the semantically unusual but phonetically similar Prakrit 𑀓𑀯𑁆𑀯𑀸𑀟 (kavvāḍa, “right hand”).

Also compare to Hindi कूड़ा (kūṛā, “trash, rubbish”), Marathi केर (ker, “trash”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /kə.bɑːɽ/, [kɐ.bäːɽ]

Noun

कबाड़ • (kabāṛ) m (Urdu spelling کباڑ)

1. junk, scrap

   Synonym: रद्दी (raddī)

   कबाड़ से जुगाड़ ― kabāṛ se jugāṛ ― making something useful out of scrap

Declension

Declension of कबाड़ (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	कबाड़ kabāṛ	कबाड़ kabāṛ
oblique	कबाड़ kabāṛ	कबाड़ों kabāṛõ
vocative	कबाड़ kabāṛ	कबाड़ो kabāṛo

References

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