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Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit कामना (kāmanā).
Pronunciation
Noun
कामना • (kāmnā) f (Urdu spelling کامنا)
- wish, desire, inclination, lust
मैं उसकी सफलता की कामना करता हूँ।- ma͠i uskī saphaltā kī kāmnā kartā hū̃.
- I wish him success.
Declension
Declension of कामना (fem ā-stem)
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singular
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plural
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direct
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कामना kāmnā
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कामनाएँ kāmnāẽ
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oblique
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कामना kāmnā
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कामनाओं kāmnāõ
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vocative
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कामना kāmnā
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कामनाओ kāmnāo
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Synonyms
References
- Platts, John T. (1884) “कामना”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
Nepali
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Phonetic Devanagari: कामना
Noun
कामना • (kāmanā)
- wish
References
- “कामना”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary], Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
- Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “कामना”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From the root कम् (kam, “to wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).
Wider cognates include Latin cārus whence French cher and English charity, and English whore.
Pronunciation
Noun
कामना • (kāmanā) stem, f
- wish, desire
Declension
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “कामना”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0273.
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कामना”, 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
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 343