क

• IPA^(key): /kə/

क (ka)

1. The Devanagari script’s unvoiced, unaspirated guttural consonant; k /k/

This letter creates several irregular ligatures.

• क्त (kt) (kta): क + त
• क्ष (kṣ) (kṣa): क + ष

• IPA^(key): /kə/

क • (ka)

1. The first consonant in Hindi.

• (Devanagari script letters) अ,‎ आ,‎ इ,‎ ई,‎ उ,‎ ऊ,‎ ऋ,‎ ए,‎ ऐ,‎ ओ,‎ औ,‎ अं,‎ अः,‎ अँ,‎ क,‎ ख,‎ ग,‎ घ,‎ ङ,‎ च,‎ छ,‎ ज,‎ झ,‎ ञ,‎ ट,‎ ठ,‎ ड,‎ ढ,‎ ण,‎ त,‎ थ,‎ द,‎ ध,‎ न,‎ प,‎ फ,‎ ब,‎ भ,‎ म,‎ य,‎ र,‎ ल,‎ व,‎ श,‎ ष,‎ स,‎ ह,‎ त्र,‎ ज्ञ,‎ क्ष,‎ क़,‎ ख़,‎ ग़,‎ ज़,‎ झ़,‎ ड़,‎ ढ़,‎ ष़ ^{(Category: Hindi letters) [edit]}

क

1. Devanagari script form of ka

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kás, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷós. Cognate with Avestan 𐬐𐬀‎ (ka), Ancient Greek ποῖος (poîos), Latin quis, Old English hwā (whence English who).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kɐ/

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kɐ/

क • (ká)

1. interrogative pronoun; who, what, which.

   सः कः? ― saḥ kaḥ? ― Who is he?

   एषः कः? ― eṣaḥ kaḥ? ― What is this?

Sentences beginning with क (ka) are often terminated with इति (iti).

क • (ka) m

1. a name.
   1. name of (a) प्रजापति (prajāpati).
   2. name of ब्रह्मन् (brahman).
   3. name of दक्ष (dakṣa).
   4. name of विष्णु (viṣṇu).
   5. name of यम (yama).
   6. name of गरुड (garuḍa).
2. the soul.
3. a particular comet.
4. the sun.
5. fire.
6. splendor, light.
7. air
8. a peacock.
9. the body.
10. time.
11. wealth.
12. sound.
13. a king.
14. Synonym of काम-ग्रन्थि (kāma-granthi)?

क • (ka) n

1. happiness, joy, pleasure.
2. water.
3. the head.
4. hair, a head of hair.

क • (ka)

1. an adjective-forming तद्धित (taddhita) suffix, expressing diminution, deterioration, or similarity.

• Monier Williams (1899), “क”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 240.