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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विकल्प (vikalpa). By surface analysis, वि- (vi-) + कल्प (kalp).
Pronunciation
Noun
विकल्प • (vikalp) m (Urdu spelling وِکَلپ) (formal)
- choice, alternative
- indecision, irresolution, doubt, hesitation
- mistake, error
- Synonyms: ग़लती (ġaltī), त्रुटि (truṭi), भूल (bhūl), चूक (cūk), भ्रांति (bhrānti), भ्रम (bhram)
- (rare) god, divine being
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:भगवान
- variation, combination, variety, diversity, manifoldness
Declension
Declension of विकल्प (masc cons-stem)
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singular
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plural
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विकल्प
vikalp
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विकल्प
vikalp
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| oblique
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विकल्प
vikalp
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विकल्पों
vikalpõ
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| vocative
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विकल्प
vikalp
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विकल्पो
vikalpo
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Further reading
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “विकल्प”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “विकल्प”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- Platts, John T. (1884) “विकल्प”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “विकल्प”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From वि- (vi-) + कॢप् (kḷp, root) + -अ (-a).
Pronunciation
Noun
विकल्प • (vikalpa) stem, m
- an intermediate kalpa, the interval between two kalpas
- choice, alternative, option
- variation, combination, variety, diversity, manifoldness
- contrivance, art
- difference of perception, distinction
- indecision, irresolution, doubt, hesitation
- admission, statement
- false notion, fancy, imagination
- calculation
- mental occupation, thinking
- Synonym of कल्पस्थान (kalpasthāna, “the art of preparing drugs”)
- (rhetoric) antithesis of opposites
- (grammar) admission of an option or alternative, the allowing a rule to be observed or not at pleasure
- a collateral form
- god, divine being
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ईश
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “विकल्प”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 955, column 2.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “vikalpa”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan