कक्ष

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “private chamber, secluded forest”).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /kəkʂ/, [kɐkʃ]

कक्ष • (kakṣ) m (Urdu spelling ککش)

1. room, chamber (a part of a building enclosed by walls, a floor, and a ceiling)

   Synonyms: कमरा (kamrā), रूम (rūm)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “कक्ष”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 735
• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “कक्ष”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 110
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “कक्ष”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 155

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *káćšas (“armpit”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóḱs-o-s. Cognate with Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬱𐬀 (kaša), Latin coxa (“hip”), Old High German hahsa (“hollow of the knee”).^[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ́k.ʂɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kɐk.ʂɐ/

कक्ष॑ • (kákṣa) stem, m or f

1. armpit, region of the girth
2. a girdle, zone, belt, girth
3. groin, waist region
4. the end of the lower garment (which, after the cloth is carried round the body, is brought up behind and tucked into the waistband)
5. hem, border, lace
6. the scale of a balance
7. side or flank
8. sin
9. a gate
10. a buffalo

• Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀓𑀓𑁆𑀔 (kakkha), 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀙 (kaccha)
• Dardic:
  • Gawar-Bati: [script needed] (kaċyāl)
  • Kalami: [script needed] (kac̣āl)
  • Kashmiri: کَژھ (kaċh)
  • Khowar: [script needed] (kuṣkomul)
  • Northeast Pashayi: [script needed] (kaċal), [script needed] (xac̣em, “my armpit”)
  • Northwest Pashayi: [script needed] (kačalīn)
  • Savi: [script needed] (kačal)
  • Shumashti: [script needed] (xaċī)
  • Southeast Pashayi: [script needed] (kačī)
  • Torwali: [script needed] (kaṣāl)
• Helu Prakrit:
  • Dhivehi: ކަކ (kak)
  • Sinhalese: කැස (kæsa)
• Khasa Prakrit:
  • Nepali: काख (kākh, “lap”)
• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀓𑀓𑁆𑀔 (kakkha), 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀙 (kaccha)
  • Assamese: কাষ (kax), কাখ (kakh)
  • Bengali: কাছ (kach)
  • Bihari:

    Bhojpuri: कांख (kāṅkh)

    Maithili: कांख (kāṅkh)

    Magahi: 𑂍𑂰𑂀𑂎 (kã̄kh)

  • Odia: କାଖ (kākha)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀓𑀓𑁆𑀔 (kakkha), 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀙 (kaccha)
  • Marathi: कास (kās)
• Paisaci Prakrit:
  • Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਕੱਛ (kaccha)
    • Shahmukhi script: کَچّھ (kacch)
  • Sindhi:
    • Arabic script: کَچھ (kach)
    • Devanagari script: कछ (kach)
• Pali: kaccha
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀓𑀓𑁆𑀔 (kakkha), 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀙 (kaccha)
  • Gujarati: કાખ (kākh)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: कांख (kāṅkh)

    Urdu: کانکھ (kā̃kh)

  • Kumaoni: काख (kākh, “lap”)
  • Romani: kakh

From Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ-so-s, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- (“to seize, enclose”). Cognate with Latin cohum (“pole-to-yoke strap”), English haw, English hedge, German Hecke (“hedge”).^[2]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ́k.ʂɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kɐk.ʂɐ/

कक्ष॑ • (kákṣa) stem, m

1. a hiding or lurking place
2. a wood, large wood
3. a forest of dead trees, a dry wood, underwood (often the lair of beasts)
4. an inner recess, the interior of a forest
5. grass, dry grass
6. a spreading creeper, climbing plant
7. a room or apartment or other segregated space

• → Hindi: कक्ष (kakṣ) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899), “कक्ष”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 241, column 3.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890), “कक्ष”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan