कोई

From Sauraseni Prakrit, from Sanskrit कश्चिद् (káścid). Likely also influence by Sanskrit कोऽपि (kó’pi). Cognate to Awadhi कोई (koī), Braj कोऊ (koū), Punjabi ਕੋਈ (koē), Gujarati કોઈ (koī), Marathi कुणी (kuṇī), Bengali কেউ (keu), Bhojpuri केऊ (keū), Assamese কেও (keü).

• IPA^(key): /koːiː/

कोई • (koī) (Urdu spelling کوئی‎)

1. some
2. certain

कोई • (koī) m or f (Urdu spelling کوئی‎)

1. any
2. anybody

   क्या यहाँ कोई है? ― kyā yahā̃ koī hai? ― Is anyone here?

3. someone, something

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “कोई”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press