कुटुम्ब

Sanskrit

Borrowed from Dravidian, compare Gondi (kuṛma, “hut, outhouse”), Tamil குடிமை (kuṭimai, “family, lineage, allegiance”) Related to कुटि (kuṭi, “a hut, cottage”).

कुटुम्ब • (kúṭumba) stem, n

a household, members of a household, family
the care of a family, housekeeping (hence metaphorically, care or anxiety about anything)

Neuter a-stem declension of कुटुम्ब (kúṭumba)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	कुटुम्बम् kúṭumbam	कुटुम्बे kúṭumbe	कुटुम्बानि / कुटुम्बा¹ kúṭumbāni / kúṭumbā¹
Vocative	कुटुम्ब kúṭumba	कुटुम्बे kúṭumbe	कुटुम्बानि / कुटुम्बा¹ kúṭumbāni / kúṭumbā¹
Accusative	कुटुम्बम् kúṭumbam	कुटुम्बे kúṭumbe	कुटुम्बानि / कुटुम्बा¹ kúṭumbāni / kúṭumbā¹
Instrumental	कुटुम्बेन kúṭumbena	कुटुम्बाभ्याम् kúṭumbābhyām	कुटुम्बैः / कुटुम्बेभिः¹ kúṭumbaiḥ / kúṭumbebhiḥ¹
Dative	कुटुम्बाय kúṭumbāya	कुटुम्बाभ्याम् kúṭumbābhyām	कुटुम्बेभ्यः kúṭumbebhyaḥ
Ablative	कुटुम्बात् kúṭumbāt	कुटुम्बाभ्याम् kúṭumbābhyām	कुटुम्बेभ्यः kúṭumbebhyaḥ
Genitive	कुटुम्बस्य kúṭumbasya	कुटुम्बयोः kúṭumbayoḥ	कुटुम्बानाम् kúṭumbānām
Locative	कुटुम्बे kúṭumbe	कुटुम्बयोः kúṭumbayoḥ	कुटुम्बेषु kúṭumbeṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Prakrit: 𑀓𑀼𑀟𑀼𑀁𑀩- (kuḍuṃba-)
Magadhi Prakrit:
- Assamese: কুৰ্মা (kurma), কুইৰ্মা (kuirma)
- Bengali: কুটুম (kuṭum), কুটুম (kuṭum)
Hindustani:
Hindi: कुड़मा (kuṛmā)

Urdu: کُڑْمَا (kuṛmā)
→ Bengali: কুটুম্ব (kuṭumbo) (learned)
→ Hindi: कुटुंब (kuṭumb) (learned)
→ Kannada: ಕುಟುಂಬ (kuṭumba) (learned)
→ Malayalam: കുടുംബം (kuṭumbaṁ) (learned)
→ Tamil: குடும்பம் (kuṭumpam) (learned)
→ Telugu: కుటుంబము (kuṭumbamu) (learned)

Monier Williams (1899) “कुटुम्ब”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 288/3.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 362