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कुह

Sanskrit

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷú-dʰe, from *kʷos, *kʷis. See कुत्र (kutra).

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Adverb

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कुह • (kúha)

  1. where (interrogative)
    Synonyms: क्व (kva), कुत्र (kutra)
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.129.1:
      नासद् आसीन् नो सद् आसीत् तदानीं नासीद् रजो नो व्योमा परो यत् ।
      किम् आवरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्न् अम्भः किम् आसीद् गहनं गभीरम् ॥
      nāsad āsīn no sad āsīt tadānīṃ nāsīd rajo no vyomā paro yat.
      kim āvarīvaḥ kuha kasya śarmann ambhaḥ kim āsīd gahanaṃ gabhīram.
      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 (2010-2024) “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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