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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जलकण्टक (jalakaṇṭaka). By surface analysis, जल (jal) + कंटक (kaṇṭak).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /d͡ʒəl.kəɳ.ʈək/,
Noun
जलकंटक • (jalkaṇṭak) m (rare, literary)
- singhara
- Synonym: (more common) सिंघाड़ा (siṅghāṛā)
- a crocodile
- Synonyms: मगर (magar), मकर (makar)
Declension
Declension of जलकंटक (masc cons-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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जलकंटक
jalkaṇṭak
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जलकंटक
jalkaṇṭak
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| oblique
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जलकंटक
jalkaṇṭak
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जलकंटकों
jalkaṇṭakõ
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| vocative
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जलकंटक
jalkaṇṭak
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जलकंटको
jalkaṇṭako
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Further reading
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “जलकंटक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
- Platts, John T. (1884) “jal-kanṭak”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “जल-कंटक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press