कटक

Borrowed from Sanskrit कटक (kaṭaka).

कटक (kaṭak) m

1. army, host
2. bracelet

Borrowed from Sanskrit कटक (kaṭaka).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kə.ʈək/,

कटक • (kaṭak) m

1. (geography) ridge
2. army, host
   • 1874, Duncan Forbes, The baital-pachisi: or, The Twenty-five tales of a demon, page 81:

     राजा कटक लिये हुवेली घेरे हुए था

     rājā kaṭak liye huvelī ghere hue thā

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

कटक • (kaṭak) m

1. Cuttack

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कटक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “कटक”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “कटक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ʈɐ.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.ʈɐ.kɐ/

Probably related to कट (kaṭa, “a twist of straw, straw mat”).

कटक • (kaṭaka) stem, m or n

1. a string
2. a bracelet of gold or shell etc.
3. a zone
4. the link of a chain
5. a ring serving for a bridle-bit
6. a ring placed as ornament upon an elephant's tusk
7. a circle, wheel

Of unclear, possibly Dravidian, origin.

कटक • (kaṭaka) stem, m or n

1. a royal camp
2. an army
3. a multitude, troop, caravan
4. collection, compilation
5. sea salt

कटक • (kaṭaka) stem, m or n

1. name of the capital of the Orissa: Cuttack

Probably from the same origin as घट्ट (ghaṭṭa, “wharf; riverside steps”).

कटक • (kaṭaka) stem, m or n

1. the side or ridge of a hill or mountain
2. a valley, dale

From कट (kaṭa, “straw mat”).

कटक • (kaṭaka) stem, m

1. a twist of straw, a straw mat

• Monier Williams (1899) “कटक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 243/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 46-7
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 140