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Urdu
Etymology
Feminine of کَہانا (kahānā), first attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi کَہانی (khany), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀥𑀸𑀡𑀕 (kadhāṇaga), from Sanskrit कथानक (kathānaka). Cognate with Punjabi کَہاݨی (kahāṇī) / ਕਹਾਣੀ (kahāṇī), Gujarati કહાણી (kahāṇī), Marathi कहाणी (kahāṇī), Odia କାହାଣୀ (kāhāṇi), Bengali কাহিনী (kahini), Assamese কাহিনী (kahini).
Pronunciation
Noun
کَہانی • (kahānī) f (Hindi spelling कहानी)
- story, tale
- an account, narrative (either in past or present)
- plot (to a book, movie or some play etc.)
- (figuratively) lie, fiction
Inflection
| Declension of کہانی
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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کَہَانِی (kahānī)
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کَہَانِِیاں (kahāniyā̃)
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| oblique
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کَہَانِی (kahānī)
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کَہَانِِیوں (kahāniyō̃)
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| vocative
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کَہَانِی (kahānī)
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کَہَانِِیو (kahāniyō)
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Further reading
- “کہانی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “کہانی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کہانی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “کہانی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “کـﮩـانی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “كہاني”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kathānaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press