Hindi

Alternative forms

• कनिया ‎(kaniyā)

Noun

कन्या • ‎(kanyā) f ‎(Urdu spelling کنیا)

1. girl
2. virgin
3. daughter

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ken- ‎(“new, fresh”), whence also कनीन ‎(kanī́na, “young, youthful”). Cognates include Latin re-cēns ‎(“recent; fresh; young”) and Ancient Greek καινός ‎(kainós, “new”).

Noun

कन्या • ‎(kanyā́) f

1. girl, virgin, daughter
2. the sign of the zodiac Virgo
3. the female of any animal
4. name of Durga
5. (botany) name of a tuberous plant growing in Kashmir
6. Aloe perfoliata; rubble aloe, mitre aloe
7. name of several other plants
8. (prosody) name of a metre (of four lines, each of them containing four long syllables)

Declension

Derived terms

• अकन्या ‎(akanyā)

Descendants

• Burmese: ကန် ‎(kan)
• Khmer: កញ្ញា ‎(kăññā)
• Telugu: కన్య ‎(kanya)
• Thai: กันยา ‎(kan yā)
• Urdu: کنیا f ‎(kanyā)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0249
• Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 062
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 187
• Carl Capeller, A Sanskrit-English dictionary, based upon the St. Petersburg lexicons, London: Luzac & Co., 1891, page 108