कङ्कण

Monier-Williams links कङ्कण to the root कै (kai, “to sound”). Mayrhofer considers कङ्कण to be sound-imitative, from a repeating onomatopoeia कन्-कन् (kan-kan, “sound of clinking”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ́ŋ.kɐ.ɳɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐŋ.kɐ.ɳɐ/

कङ्कण • (kaṅkaṇa) stem, n

1. a bracelet; a bangle; an ornament for the wrist; a ring
2. a band or ribbon (tied around the wrist of a bride or bridegroom before marriage)
3. (generally) any ornament or trinket

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: kangun

    Arabic script: کَنگَن

    Devanagari script: कंगुन्

• Pali: kaṅkana
• Prakrit: 𑀓𑀁𑀓𑀡 (kaṃkaṇa)
  • Central:
    • Awadhi: ककना (kaknā)
    • Hindustani: kaknā, kaknī
      • Hindi: ककना, ककनी
      • Urdu: ککنا, ککنی
  • Eastern:
    • Bengali: কাঁকন (kãkon)
    • Bihari: कँकना (kãknā), कँकनी (kãknī), ककना (kaknā)
  • Northern:
    • Bhadrawahi: कङ्कण (kaṅkaṇ)
  • Northwestern:
    • Sindhi: kaṅgaṇu, kaṅgiṇī

      Arabic script: ڪَنگَڻُ, ڪَنگِڻِي

      Devanagari script: कंगणु, कंगिणी

    • Punjabi: kaṅgaṇ, kaṅgan

      Gurmukhi script: ਕੰਗਣ, ਕੰਗਨ

      Shahmukhi script: کنگن, کنگن

      • → Hindustani: kaṅgan
        • Hindi: कंगन
        • Urdu: کنگن
      • → Bihari: कंग्ना (kãgnā), कंग्नी (kãgnī)
        • Bhojpuri: कंगना (kaṅgᵊnā)
      • → Marathi: कंगणी (kaṅgṇī)
      • → Nepali: कंग्ना (kaṅgnā)

• Monier Williams (1899) “कङ्कण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 242.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kaṅkaṇa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 128
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) “KAKH - kaṅkana”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 42