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कुह

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kúdʰa, from Proto-Indo-European *kú-dʰe. See also कुत्र (kútra).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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कुह • (kúha)

  1. where (interrogative)
    Synonyms: क्व (kvà), कुत्र (kútra)
    • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.129.1:
      नास॑द् आसी॒न् नो सद् आ॑सीत् त॒दानीं॒ नासी॒द् रजो॒ नो व्यो॑मा प॒रो यत् ।
      किम् आव॑रीवः॒ कुह॒ कस्य॒ शर्म॒न्न् अम्भः॒ किम् आ॑सी॒द् गह॑नं गभी॒रम् ॥
      nā́sad āsīn nó sád āsīt tadā́nīṃ nā́sīd rájo nó vyòmā paró yát.
      kím ā́varīvaḥ kúha kásya śármann ámbhaḥ kím āsīd gáhanaṃ gabhīrám.
      Then was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
      What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?

Descendants

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  • Pali: kuha

References

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  • Monier Williams (1899), “कुह”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 298.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “कुह”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 71
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025), “kuha”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kuha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 175
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