کنھیا

Urdu

Alternative forms

• کنہیا (kanhaiya)

Etymology

Dimunitive of कांह (kāṃha)/कान्ह (kānha), from Prakrit 𑀓𑀡𑁆𑀳 (kaṇha), from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa). Doublet of کرشن (kirśn, learned borrowing) and کشن (kiśan, semi-learned borrowing). Cognate to Assamese কানু (kanu), কানাই (kanai), Bengali কান (kano), কানাই (kanai), Gujarati કાનો (kāno), કાનુડો (kānuḍo).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kə.nʱə̯i.jɑː/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /kə.nə̯i.jɑː/

Proper noun

کنھیا • (kanhaiya) m (Hindi spelling कन्हैया)

1. (Hinduism) Krishna

   کنھیا کا بالپن ― kanhaiya kā bālpan ― infancy of Krishna

2. a male given name, Kanhaiya, from Sanskrit, of Hindu usage

References

• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “کنهيا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کنهيا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.