क्षण

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्षण (kṣaṇa). Compare Marwari छण (chaṇ), Gujarati ક્ષણ (kṣaṇ), Chinese 剎那 / 刹那 (chànà). Doublet of छिन (chin).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kʂəɳ/,

क्षण • (kṣaṇ) m (Urdu spelling کشن)

1. instant, blink of an eye (a short amount of time)
2. moment

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “क्षण”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “क्षण”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “क्षण”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “क्षण”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्षण (kṣaṇa). Compare Marwari छण (chaṇ), Gujarati ક્ષણ (kṣaṇ), Chinese 剎那 / 刹那 (chànà).

• IPA^(key): /kʂəɳ/

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क्षण • (kṣaṇ) m

1. moment, instant (a short amount of time)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “क्षण”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “क्षण”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

Probably related to अक्षि (akṣi, “eye”), perhaps via a clipping of अभीक्ष्ण (abhīkṣṇa, “constant, perpetual, every moment”), which would be decomposed as अभि (abhi) + अक्षि (akṣi).^[1] Compare German Augenblick (“instant, moment”) for a similar semantic development from the same root.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʂɐ.ɳɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkʂɐ.ɳɐ/

क्षण • (kṣaṇa) stem, m

1. any instantaneous point of time, an instant, a moment
2. leisure moment, vacant time
3. a suitable or fit moment, an opportunity
4. a festival

• Magahi: 𑂎𑂢𑂱 (khani)
• Pali: khaṇa
  • → Burmese: ခဏ (hka.na.)
  • → Khmer: ខណៈ (khaʼnaʼ)
  • → Lao: ຂະນະ (kha na)
  • → Mon: ခၞ
  • → Thai: ขณะ (kà-nà)
• Prakrit: 𑀔𑀡 (khaṇa)
  • Old Hindi: खन (khana)
  • Romani: kana
• Prakrit:
  • Hindi: छिन (chin)
  • Nepali: छिन (china)
  • Marwari: छण (chaṇ), छिण (chiṇ)
• Bengali: খন (khon)
• → Classical Mongolian: ᠭᠱᠠᠨ (ɣšan)
  • Mongolian: агшин (agšin), ᠭᠱᠠᠨ (ɣšan)
• → Middle Chinese: 剎那 (chat na)
  • Chinese: 剎那 / 刹那 (chànà)
  • → Japanese: 刹那 (setsuna)
  • → Korean: 찰나(刹那) (challa)
  • → Vietnamese: sát na
• → Gujarati: ક્ષણ (kṣaṇ)
• → Hindi: क्षण (kṣaṇ)
• → Kannada: ಕ್ಷಣ (kṣaṇa)
• → Marathi: क्षण (kṣaṇ)
• → Old Javanese: kṣaṇa
• → Classical Malay: سسں (sasana)
• → Tamil: கணம் (kaṇam)
• → Telugu: క్షణము (kṣaṇamu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “क्षण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 324/3, 325/1.