कपूर

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /kə.puːɾ/, [kɐ.puːɾ]
• Rhymes: -uːɾ

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀧𑁆𑀧𑀽𑀭 (kappūra), from Sanskrit कर्पूर (karpū́ra). Doublet of काफ़ूर (kāfūr).

कपूर • (kapūr) m (Urdu spelling کَپُور)

1. camphor

Borrowed from Punjabi ਕਪੂਰ (kapūr).

कपूर • (kapūr) m or f by sense (Urdu spelling کَپُور)

1. a surname, Kapoor

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “कपूर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “कपूर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• “कपूर”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “कपूर”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kapūr”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀧𑁆𑀧𑀽𑀭 (kappūra), from Sanskrit क॒र्पूर॑ (karpū́ra), possibly borrowed from Proto-Malayic *kapur, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qapuʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *qapuʀ (“lime, calcium”). Compare Old Punjabi ਕਪੂਰੁ (kapūru), Old Gujarati कपूरि (kapūri, instrumental singular), Old Marathi 𑘎𑘰𑘢𑘳𑘨 (kāpura).

कपूर (kapūra)

1. camphor

• Hindustani:
  • Hindi: कपूर (kapūr), ⇒ कपूरी (kapūrī)
  • Urdu: کَپُور (kapūr), ⇒ کَپُورِی (kapūrī)

• 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 525
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “karpūˊra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 146