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Hindi Alternative forms Etymology Borrowed from Sanskrit कोश ( kośa ) .
Pronunciation ( Delhi Hindi ) IPA (key ) : /koːʃ/ Noun कोश • (koś ) m Urdu spelling کوش
treasury , store dictionary , lexicon
Synonym: शब्दकोश ( śabdakoś ) Declension
Declension of कोश (masc cons-stem )
singular
plural
direct
कोश koś
कोश koś
oblique
कोश koś
कोशों kośõ
vocative
कोश koś
कोशो kośo
Derived terms Sanskrit Alternative forms कोष ( koṣa ) — in Classical period Alternative scripts Alternative scripts
কোশ ( Assamese script ) ᬓᭀᬰ ( Balinese script ) কোশ ( Bengali script ) 𑰎𑰺𑰫 ( Bhaiksuki script ) 𑀓𑁄𑀰 ( Brahmi script ) ကောၐ ( Burmese script ) કોશ ( Gujarati script ) ਕੋਸ਼ ( Gurmukhi script ) 𑌕𑍋𑌶 ( Grantha script ) ꦏꦺꦴꦯ ( Javanese script ) 𑂍𑂷𑂬 ( Kaithi script ) ಕೋಶ ( Kannada script ) កោឝ ( Khmer script ) ໂກຨ ( Lao script ) കോശ ( Malayalam script ) ᡬᠣᡧᠠ ( Manchu script ) 𑘎𑘻𑘫 ( Modi script ) ᢉᠣᠸᠠᠱᠠ᠋ ( Mongolian script ) 𑦮𑧜𑧋 ( Nandinagari script ) 𑐎𑑀𑐱 ( Newa script ) କୋଶ ( Odia script ) ꢒꣂꢯ ( Saurashtra script ) 𑆑𑆾𑆯 ( Sharada script ) 𑖎𑖺𑖫 ( Siddham script ) කොශ ( Sinhalese script ) 𑩜𑩕𑩿 ( Soyombo script ) 𑚊𑚴𑚧 ( Takri script ) கோஶ ( Tamil script ) కోశ ( Telugu script ) โกศ ( Thai script ) ཀོ་ཤ ( Tibetan script ) 𑒏𑒼𑒬 ( Tirhuta script ) 𑨋𑨆𑨮 ( Zanabazar Square script ) Etymology Probably from the verb कुश्यति ( kuśyati , “ to embrace, enfold ” ) , related to कुक्षि ( kukṣí , “ belly, interior ” ) and कोष्ठ ( koṣṭha , “ viscera of the body ” ) .
Pronunciation Noun कोश • (kóśa ) stem , m or n
cask , vessel for holding liquids, (metaphorically) cloud
RV 3.32.15
आपूर्णो अस्य कलशः सवाहा सेक्तेव कोशं सिसिचे पिबध्यै |समु परिया आवव्र्त्रन मदाय परदक्षिणिदभि सोमासैन्द्रम ||
āpūrṇo asya kalaśaḥ svāhā sekteva kośaṃ sisice pibadhyai |samu priyā āvavṛtran madāya pradakṣiṇidabhi somāsaindram ||
Full is his chalice: Glory! Like a pourer I have filled up the vessel for his drinking.
Presented on the right, dear Soma juices have brought us Indra, to rejoice him, hither. pail , bucket
RV 9.76.5
वर्षेव यूथा परि कोश मर्षस्यपामुपस्थे वर्षभः कनिक्रदत |स इन्द्राय पवसे मत्सरिन्तमो यथा जेषाम समिथे तवोतयः ||
vṛṣeva yūthā pari kośa marṣasyapāmupasthe vṛṣabhaḥ kanikradat |sa indrāya pavase matsarintamo yathā jeṣāma samithe tvotayaḥ ||
Like as a bull to herds, thou flowest to the pail , bellowing as a steer upon the water's lap.
So, best of Cheerers, thou for Indra flowest on that we, with thy protection, may o’ercome in fight. drinking-vessel, cup
box , cupboard , drawer , trunk
RV 6.47.22
परस्तोक इन नु राधसस्त इन्द्र दश कोश यीर्दश वाजिनो.अदात |दिवोदासादतिथिग्वस्य राधः शाम्बरं वसु परत्यग्रभीष्म ||
prastoka in nu rādhasasta indra daśa kośa yīrdaśa vājino.adāt |divodāsādatithighvasya rādhaḥ śāmbaraṃ vasu pratyaghrabhīṣma ||
Out of thy bounty, Indra, hath Prastoka bestowed ten coffers and ten mettled horses.
We have received in turn from Divodāsa Śambara's wealth, the gift of Atithigva. the interior or inner part of a carriage
sheath , scabbard case , covering , cover store-room, store , provisions
treasury , apartment where money or plate is kept, treasure , accumulated wealth (gold or silver, wrought or unwrought, as plate, jewellery, etc.)( medicine ) bandage dictionary , lexicon or vocabulary - kosha poetical collection , collection of sentences( botany ) bud , flower -cup , seed-vessel
बीजकोश ― bījakośa ― seed-vessel ( botany ) sheath or integument of a plant, pod, nut-shellnutmeg the inner part of the fruit of Artocarpus integrifolia
silk-worm cocoon
the membrane covering an egg (in the womb)
( anatomy ) vulva ( anatomy ) testicle , scrotum ( anatomy ) penis egg ( in Vedânta philosophy ) kosha : a term for the three sheaths or succession of cases which make up the various frames of the body enveloping the soul( at the end of a compound ) a ball or globe
सूत्रकोश ― sūtrakośa ― a ball of thread नेत्रकोश ― netrakośa ― the eye-ball the water used at an ordeal or judicial trial (the defendant drinks thrice of it after some idol has been washed in it)
oath a cup used in the ratification of a treaty of peace
कोशंपिबति ― kośaṃ-√pā ― to drink from that cup
name of a particular conjunction of planetsname of the 2nd astrological mansion ( Buddhism ) name of a collection of Gāthā versesDeclension Derived terms Descendants → Assamese: কোশ ( küx ) → Bengali: কোশ ( kōś ) কোষ ( kōś ) → English: kosha → Hindi: कोश ( koś ) → Malay: kosa Nepali: कोश् ( koś ) कोसो ( koso )
→ Odia: କୋଷ ( koṣô ) Sindhi: ڪوشُ
→ Tamil: கோசம் ( kōcam ) → Telugu: కోశము ( kōśamu ) → Thai: โกศ ( gòot ) Pali: kosa
→ Punjabi: ਕੋਸ਼ ( koś , “ store, glossary, lexicon ” ) References Monier Williams (1899 ) “कोश ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press , →OCLC 0314/1 “कोश A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons , Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893 ) “कोश A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout , London: Oxford University Press, page 075 Horace Hayman Wilson , A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed. , Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 252 Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992 ) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan 403-404