कूच

Borrowed from Classical Persian کوچ (kūč).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kuːt͡ʃ/

कूच • (kūc) m (Urdu spelling کوچ)

1. departure, leaving

   Synonyms: प्रयाण (prayāṇ), रवानगी (ravāngī), प्रस्थान (prasthān)

2. (euphemistically) death

   Synonyms: परलोकयात्रा (parlokyātrā), प्रस्थान (prasthān)

   कूच कर जाना ― kūc kar jānā ― to make one's departure (literally, “to die”)

3. (military) march

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कूच”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Bahri, Hardev (1960) Persian Influence on Hindi‎, Allahabad, India: Bharati Press, page 26

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• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kuː.t͡ɕɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.t͡ɕɐ/

कूच • (kūca) stem, m

1. the female breast
2. an elephant

• Monier Williams (1899) “कूच”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 299.