कार्य

Borrowed from Sanskrit कार्य (kārya). Doublet of काज (kāj).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kɑːɾ.jᵊ/,

कार्य • (kārya) m (Urdu spelling کاریہ)

1. work, task

   हमारा कार्य आज से शुरू होगा।

   hamārā kārya āj se śurū hogā.

   Our work will start from today.

   Synonym: काम (kām)

2. action, operation
3. business
4. profession, job

   Synonym: नौकरी (naukrī)

5. labor
6. (physics) work

• Platts, John T. (1884) “कार्य”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Borrowed from Sanskrit कार्य (kārya).

• IPA^(key): /kaɾ.jə/

कार्य • (kārya) m

1. work, task (usually of greater significance than काम (kām))
2. rite of passage, festal occasion
3. (grammar) inflection

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

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kā́ryas (“to be done”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷór-yo-s, from the root *kʷer- (“to do, make”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (kaⁱriia, “(that which is) to be done”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɑː.ɾí.jɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɾ.jɐ/

कार्य • (kāryà) (metrical Vedic kāríya)

1. future passive participle of कृ (kṛ); to be made or done, to be prepared
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 3.24.5:

     शतहस्त समाहर सहस्रहस्त सं किर ।
     कृतस्य कार्यस्य चेह स्फातिं समावह ॥

     śatahasta samāhara sahasrahasta saṃ kira.
     kṛtasya kāryasya ceha sphātiṃ samāvaha.

     O Hundred-handed, gather up. O Thousand-handed, pour thou forth.
     Bring hither the growth of the corn prepared and yet to be prepared.

कार्य • (kāryà) stem (metrical Vedic kāríya)

1. fit to be done, proper, right

कार्य • (kāryà) stem, n

1. function, act, deed
2. work, business, enterprise
3. end, aim, result, effect
4. any work or business to be done

• Gandhari: 𐨐𐨪𐨁𐨩 (kariya)
• Pali: kāriya
• Prakrit: 𑀓𑁂𑀭 (kera) (early grammaticalized possessive marker, see there for further descendants)
• Prakrit: 𑀓𑀚𑁆𑀚 (kajja)
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
    • Bengali: কাজ (kaj)
    • Early Assamese: কায (kajo)
      • Assamese: কাজ (kaz)
  • Maharastri Prakrit:
    • Old Marathi: काज (kāja)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit:
    • Gujarati: કાજ (kāj)
    • Hindi: काज (kāj)

• Classical Malay:
  • > Malay: kerja (inherited)
    • > Indonesian: kerja, kerdja (1901–1947, 1947–1972) (inherited)
      • → As: kerja
    • > Peranakan Indonesian: kerdja (inherited)
    • → Javanese: ꦏꦼꦂꦗ (kerja)
    • → Minangkabau: karajo
• → Bengali: কার্য (karjo)
• → Hindi: कार्य (kārya)
• → Kannada: ಕಾರ್ಯ (kārya)
• → Old Javanese: kārya
  • > Javanese: ꦏꦂꦪ (karya) (inherited)
    • → Malay: karya
      • > Indonesian: karya (inherited)
  • → Balinese: ᬓᬃᬬ (karya)
• → Marathi: कार्य (kārya)
• → Tamil: காரியம் (kāriyam)

• Monier Williams (1899) “कार्य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 276, column 1.