क्वाथ

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्वाथ (kvāthá). Doublet of काढ़ा (kāṛhā).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kʋɑːt̪ʰ/,

क्वाथ • (kvāth) m

1. decoction of medicinal herbs

   Synonyms: काढ़ा (kāṛhā), जोशाँदा (jośā̃dā)

2. pain, sorrow, distress

   Synonyms: दुःख (duḥkh), कष्ट (kaṣṭ), पीड़ा (pīṛā), शोक (śok)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “क्वाथ”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “क्वाथ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “क्वाथ”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From the root क्वथ् (kvath, “to boil; prepare by heat”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʋɑː.tʰɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkʋɑː.t̪ʰɐ/

क्वाथ • (kvāthá) stem, m

1. boiling
2. decoction of medicinal herbs
   1. the mixture of the materials for a decoction
3. pain, sorrow, distress

• क्वाथक (kvāthaka)

• Prakrit: 𑀓𑀸𑀠 (kāḍha) (see there for further descendants)

• Monier Williams (1899) “क्वाथ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 324.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “kvātha”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “क्वाथ”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “क्वाथ”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kvāthá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press