काबा
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Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian کعبه (ka'ba), from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba). First attested as Old Hindi काबा (kābā). Compare Punjabi ਕਾਅਬਾ (kāabā) / کَعبہ (kaʻbh), Sindhi ڪَعبو, Gujarati કાબા (kābā), Bengali কাবা (kaba).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
काबा • (kābā) m (Urdu spelling کَعْبَہ)
Declension
Declension of काबा (sg-only masc unmarked ā-stem)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| direct | काबा kābā |
| oblique | काबा kābā |
| vocative | काबा kābā |
Further reading
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “काबा”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 905
- “”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “काबा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 190
Old Hindi
Alternative forms
- काबइ (kābaï)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian کعبه (ka'ba), from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba). Compare Old Punjabi ਕਾਬਾ (kābā).
Proper noun
काबा (kābā)
Descendants
Further reading
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC