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Urdu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Dimunitive of कांह (kāṃha)/कान्ह (kānha), from Prakrit 𑀓𑀡𑁆𑀳 (kaṇha), from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa). Doublet of کرشن (kirśn, learned borrowing) and کشن (kiśan, semi-learned borrowing). Cognate to Assamese কানু (kanu), কানাই (kanai), Bengali কান (kano), কানাই (kanai), Gujarati કાનો (kāno), કાનુડો (kānuḍo).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
کنھیا • (kanhaiya) m (Hindi spelling कन्हैया)
- (Hinduism) Krishna
- کنھیا کا بالپن ― kanhaiya kā bālpan ― infancy of Krishna
- a male given name, Kanhaiya, from Sanskrit, of Hindu usage
References
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “کنهيا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کنهيا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.