कनक

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कनक (kánaka).

• IPA^(key): /kə.nək/

कनक (kanak) m

1. gold

   कनक खंभ मरकत मनि हों, हीराखचित अमोल ― kanak khambh markat mani hõ, hīrākhcit amol ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kə.nək/,

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit कणिक (kaṇika). Doublet of कणिक (kaṇik) and कनिक (kanik).

कनक • (kanak) m (Urdu spelling کنک)

1. wheat flour

   Synonym: गेहूँ का आटा (gehū̃ kā āṭā)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कनक (kánaka).

कनक • (kanak) m (Urdu spelling کنک) (rare, formal)

1. gold

   Synonyms: सोना (sonā), स्वर्ण (svarṇ)

2. thorn apple

   Synonym: (more common) धतूरा (dhatūrā)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “कनक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “कनक”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कनक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Unknown, possibly related to काञ्चन (kāñcana, “gold”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ́.nɐ.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.n̪ɐ.kɐ/

कनक • (kánaka) stem, n

1. gold

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:सुवर्ण

• Pali: kanaka
• Prakrit: 𑀓𑀡𑀬 (kaṇaya)
• → Bengali: কনক (konok) (learned)
• → Hindi: कनक (kanak) (learned)
• → Braj: कनक (kanak) (learned)

कनक • (kánaka) stem, m

1. a kind of decoration
2. name of several plants
   1. Ceylon ironwood, cobra saffron (Mesua ferrea)
   2. champak (Magnolia champaca)
   3. Butea frondosa
   4. Bauhinia variegata
   5. Kasaunda, kasondi senna, hasundari, pepper-leaved senna (Senna sophera, syn. Cassia sophera)
   6. thorn apple
   7. a kind of bdellium
   8. a kind of sandalwood

कनक • (kánaka) stem

1. made of gold

• Monier Williams (1899) “कनक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 248, column 2.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “कनक”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 296
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kánaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press