कुठार

Sanskrit

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Proto-Dravidian *kuṭāri (compare modern Tamil குடாரி (kuṭāri, axe)).

Some linguists have suggested Proto-Indo-European *kl̥tḗr, with Latin culter (butcher's knife) as a cognate but this is very uncertain.

Pronunciation

Noun

कुठार (kuṭhāra) m

  1. axe
  2. hoe, spade

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of कुठार
Nom. sg. कुठारः (kuṭhāraḥ)
Gen. sg. कुठारस्य (kuṭhārasya)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative कुठारः (kuṭhāraḥ) कुठारौ (kuṭhārau) कुठाराः (kuṭhārāḥ)
Vocative कुठार (kuṭhāra) कुठारौ (kuṭhārau) कुठाराः (kuṭhārāḥ)
Accusative कुठारम् (kuṭhāram) कुठारौ (kuṭhārau) कुठारान् (kuṭhārān)
Instrumental कुठारेण (kuṭhāreṇa) कुठाराभ्याम् (kuṭhārābhyām) कुठारैः (kuṭhāraiḥ)
Dative कुठाराय (kuṭhārāya) कुठाराभ्याम् (kuṭhārābhyām) कुठारेभ्यः (kuṭhārebhyaḥ)
Ablative कुठारात् (kuṭhārāt) कुठाराभ्याम् (kuṭhārābhyām) कुठारेभ्यः (kuṭhārebhyaḥ)
Genitive कुठारस्य (kuṭhārasya) कुठारयोः (kuṭhārayoḥ) कुठाराणाम् (kuṭhārāṇām)
Locative कुठारे (kuṭhāre) कुठारयोः (kuṭhārayoḥ) कुठारेषु (kuṭhāreṣu)

References

  • 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 289
  • Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 254
  • Thomas Burrow; Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984), kuṭāri”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press
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