کہانی

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Feminine of کَہانا (kahānā), first attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi کَہانی (khany), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀥𑀸𑀡𑀕 (kadhāṇaga), from Sanskrit कथानक (kathānaka). Cognate with Punjabi کَہاݨی (kahāṇī) / ਕਹਾਣੀ (kahāṇī), Gujarati કહાણી (kahāṇī), Marathi कहाणी (kahāṇī), Odia କାହାଣୀ (kāhāṇi), Bengali কাহিনী (kahini), Assamese কাহিনী (kahini).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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کَہانی (kahānīf (Hindi spelling कहानी)

  1. story, tale
  2. an account, narrative (either in past or present)
  3. plot (to a book, movie or some play etc.)
  4. (figuratively) lie, fiction

Inflection

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    Declension of کہانی
singular plural
direct کَہَانِی (kahānī) کَہَانِِیاں (kahāniyā̃)
oblique کَہَانِی (kahānī) کَہَانِِیوں (kahāniyō̃)
vocative کَہَانِی (kahānī) کَہَانِِیو (kahāniyō)

Further reading

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  • کہانی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • کہانی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کہانی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “کہانی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “کـﮩـانی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “كہاني”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kathānaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press