कन्या

See also: कनिया

Hindi

कन्या • (kanyā) f (Urdu spelling کنیا‎)

From Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“new, fresh”), whence also कनीन (kanī́na, “young, youthful”). Cognates include Latin re-cēns (“recent; fresh; young”) and Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”).

कन्या • (kanyā̀) f

girl, virgin, daughter
the sign of the zodiac Virgo
the female of any animal
name of Durga
(botany) name of a tuberous plant growing in Kashmir
Aloe perfoliata; rubble aloe, mitre aloe
name of several other plants
(prosody) name of a metre (of four lines, each of them containing four long syllables)

Feminine ā-stem declension of कन्या (kanyā̀)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	कन्या kanyā̀	कन्ये kanyè	कन्याः kanyā̀ḥ
Vocative	कन्ये kánye	कन्ये kánye	कन्याः kányāḥ
Accusative	कन्याम् kanyā̀m	कन्ये kanyè	कन्याः kanyā̀ḥ
Instrumental	कन्यया / कन्या¹ kanyàyā / kanyā̀¹	कन्याभ्याम् kanyā̀bhyām	कन्याभिः kanyā̀bhiḥ
Dative	कन्यायै kanyā̀yai	कन्याभ्याम् kanyā̀bhyām	कन्याभ्यः kanyā̀bhyaḥ
Ablative	कन्यायाः kanyā̀yāḥ	कन्याभ्याम् kanyā̀bhyām	कन्याभ्यः kanyā̀bhyaḥ
Genitive	कन्यायाः kanyā̀yāḥ	कन्ययोः kanyàyoḥ	कन्यानाम् kanyā̀nām
Locative	कन्यायाम् kanyā̀yām	कन्ययोः kanyàyoḥ	कन्यासु kanyā̀su
Notes	¹Vedic

“कन्या” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, OCLC 186102264, page 108.
Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0249
Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 062
Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 187

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