क्यों

Hindi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi क्यूं (kyūṃ), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa किंव (kiṃva), केंव (keṃva), from the interrogative base in क्- (k-) + एंव (eṃva), for which see यों ().

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /kjũː/
  • (formal, uncommon) (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /kjõː/

Adverb

क्यों • (kyõ) (Urdu spelling کیوں)

  1. why
    तूने इस तरह का घर क्यों बनाया?
    tūne is tarah kā ghar kyõ banāyā?
    Why did you make this kind of house?
    क्यों नहीं?kyõ nahī̃?Why not?

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References

  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “क्यों”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 284
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