کو

کو (ko)

1. (interrogative) where

• کده‎ (kode)

Ultimately from a derivative of Sanskrit कृ (kṛ, “to do”). Compare Hindi को (ko) / Urdu کو‎ (ko), Braj कौ (kau).

کو (kū)

1. marks the dative case: to

   ‏میرے کو‎ ― mere kū ― to me

• aku
• ku (ku- / -ku)
• daku
• اکو‎
• داکو‎

Shortened form of اکو‎ (aku), from Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aku, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

• IPA^(key): /ku/
• Rhymes: -ku, -u

کو (Rumi spelling ku‎)

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

• Not appropriate when the audience is anyone who is elder or of higher status.

• کو-‎
• -کو‎

Ultimately from a derivative of Sanskrit कृ (kṛ, “to do”). Compare Braj कौ (kau), Assamese -ক (-k).

• IPA^(key): /koː/

کو • (ko) Hindi spelling: को (ko)

1. marks the dative case: to

   ‏میرے بھائی کو پانی دیں۔‎‎ ― mere bhāī ko pānī dẽ. ― Please give some water to my elder brother.

   ‏لاہور کو‎ ― lāhaur ko ― to Lahore

   ‏اوپر کو‎ ― ūpar ko ― upwards

2. in, at the time of

   ‏میں شام کو گھر لوٹوں گا۔‎‎ ― ma͠i śām ko ghar lauṭū̃ gā. ― I will return home in the evening.

کو‎ (ko) marks the dative. It can be used as a postfix similar to -wards (e.g. اوپر کو (ūpar ko, “upwards”); آگے کو (āge ko, “afterwards”)).

It is suffixed to oblique forms of pronouns as well, e.g. the dative of میں‎ (ma͠i, “I”) is مجھ کو (mujh ko).

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “کو”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “کو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “ká”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press