कन्या

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • girl, virgin, daughter
  • (astrology) the sign of the zodiac Virgo
  • the female of any animal
  • name of Durga
  • (plant) name of a tuberous plant growing in Kashmir
  • ,
  • name of several other plants
  • (prosody) name of a metre (of four lines, each of them containing four long syllables)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kanyáH inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanyáH derived from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (ashes, dust, new, fresh, begin, pinch, scratch, press, cut, kink, buckle, arise, rub, bend, scrape).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ken-

Gloss

ashes, dust, new, fresh, begin, pinch, scratch, press, cut, kink, buckle, arise, rub, bend, scrape

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

始

Emoji

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