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Hindi
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /kɑːn.t̪iː/,
Noun
कान्ति • (kānti) f
- Alternative spelling of कांति (kānti)
Declension
Declension of कान्ति (fem i-stem)
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From कम् (kam, “to desire, wish”, root) + -ति (-ti).
Pronunciation
Noun
कान्ति • (kānti) stem, f
- desire, wish
- loveliness, beauty, splendour, female beauty, personal decoration or embellishment
- a lovely colour, brightness (especially of the moon)
- (rhetoric) beauty enhanced by love
- a lovely or desirable woman personified as the wife of the moon
Declension
Derived terms
- कान्तिकर (kāntikara, “beauty-causing”)
- कान्तिद (kāntida, “beauty-giving”)
- कान्तिमत् (kāntimat, “lovely, splendid”)
- कान्तिहर (kāntihara, “beauty-destroying”)
- चन्द्रकान्ति (candrakānti, “the lustre of the moon, moonlight”)
- सूर्यकान्ति (sūryakānti, “the splendor of the sun, sunlight, sunshine”)
- हेमकान्ति (hemakānti, “having a golden lustre, turmeric”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “कान्ति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 270.
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कान्ति”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016