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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्वाथ (kvāthá). Doublet of काढ़ा (kāṛhā).
Pronunciation
Noun
क्वाथ • (kvāth) m
- decoction of medicinal herbs
- Synonyms: काढ़ा (kāṛhā), जोशाँदा (jośā̃dā)
- pain, sorrow, distress
- Synonyms: दुःख (duḥkh), कष्ट (kaṣṭ), पीड़ा (pīṛā), शोक (śok)
Declension
Declension of क्वाथ (masc cons-stem)
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क्वाथ
kvāth
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क्वाथ
kvāth
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क्वाथ
kvāth
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क्वाथों
kvāthõ
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क्वाथ
kvāth
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क्वाथो
kvātho
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Further reading
- 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
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From the root क्वथ् (kvath, “to boil; prepare by heat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
क्वाथ • (kvāthá) stem, m
- boiling
- decoction of medicinal herbs
- the mixture of the materials for a decoction
- pain, sorrow, distress
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Prakrit: 𑀓𑀸𑀠 (kāḍha) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “क्वाथ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 324.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “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