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कतर

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Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *katarás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kátaras, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros, from *kʷos (which) (whence also ()). Cognate with Ancient Greek πότερος (póteros), Lithuanian katràs, Russian который (kotoryj), Old English hwæþer (whence English whether).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

कतर (katará)

  1. who, which (of two)?; whether (of two)?
    Coordinate term: कतम (katamá, which (of many)?)

Declension

More information singular, dual ...
  • ¹Vedic
More information singular, dual ...
  • ¹Vedic
More information singular, dual ...
  • ¹Vedic

Derived terms

  • कतरतस् (katarátas, on which of the two sides?)

Descendants

  • Pali: katara
  • Prakrit: 𑀓𑀬𑀭 (kayara)

See also

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), “कतर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 246, column 3.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 293-4
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “katará”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 135
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025), “katara”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
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