कर्हि

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷór + *ǵʰí (whence हि ()). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hwar (where?), Latin cūr (why?).

Pronunciation

Adverb

कर्हि • (kárhi)

  1. when? at what time?
    Synonym: कदा (kadā́)
  2. (with स्विद् (svid) or चिद् (cid)) at any time

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Kashmiri: कर (kar, when?)

See also

  • Appendix:Sanskrit correlatives

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), “कर्हि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 260, column 1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 320
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kárhi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 148