کنہیا

Urdu

Alternative forms

• کنھیا (kanhayya) — misspelling

Etymology

Dimunitive of कांह (kāṃha)/कान्ह (kānha), from Prakrit 𑀓𑀡𑁆𑀳 (kaṇha), from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa). Doublet of کرشن (kirśn, learned borrowing) and کشن (kiśan, semi-learned borrowing). Cognate to Assamese কানু (kanu), কানাই (kanai), Bengali কান (kano), কানাই (kanai), Gujarati કાનો (kāno), કાનુડો (kānuḍo).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kən.ɦəj.jɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /kə.nə̯j.jɑː/

Proper noun

کَنْہَیَّا • (kanhayyā) m (Hindi spelling कन्हैया)

1. (Hinduism) Krishna

   کَنْہَیَّا کا بالْپَن ― kanhayyā kā bālpan ― infancy of Krishna

2. a male given name, Kanhaiya, from Sanskrit, of Hindu usage

Noun

کَنْہَیَّا • (kanhayyā) m (Hindi spelling कन्हैया)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Hinduism) a handsome boy (like Krishna)

References

• “کنہیا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کنہیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کنهيا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کنهيا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “کنـﮩيا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “کنہيا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kr̥ṣṇá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 179