कुमार

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुमार (kumāra).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /kʊ.mɑːɾ/, [kʊ.mäːɾ]

कुमार • (kumār) m (female equivalent कुमारी)

1. youth, young person
2. bachelor
3. prince (shortened from राजकुमार (rājkumār))

कुमार • (kumār) m

1. a male given name, Kumar, from Sanskrit

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ku-ma- (“tender, young”) (with *ku denoting "small and weak") and cognate with Classical Persian کودک (kōdak, “child, boy”), deriving further from a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *ku-mo- (“small, weak”) and possibly connected to Ancient Greek σκύμνος (skúmnos, “cub, whelp”), Lithuanian kumẽlė (“mare”), and Latvian kumeļš (“foal”).^[1] Another theory takes the word as a compound of कु- (ku-, “intensifying prefix”) + a form of म्लै (mlai, “to fade, wither, decay, be languid or exhausted”).^[2] Finally, Kuiper considers the word to be borrowed from Dravidian.^[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ku.mɑː.ɾɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ku.mɑː.ɾɐ/

कु॒मा॒र • (kumārá) stem, m

1. a child, boy, youth
2. a son
3. prince, heir apparent associated in the kingdom with the reigning monarch
4. a groom

Used as another name for कार्त्तिकेय (kārttikeya, “Hindu god of war”).

• Assamese: কোঁৱৰ (kü̃or)
• → Khmer: កុមារ (ko’maa)
• → Malayalam: കുമാരൻ (kumāraṉ)
• → Punjabi: ਕੁਮਾਰ (kumār) (learned)
• → Tamil: குமாரன் (kumāraṉ)
• → Telugu: కుమారుడు (kumāruḍu)
• → Thai: กุมาร (gù-maan)

• Monier Williams (1899), “कुमार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 292, column 1.
• Charles Rockwell Lanman (1920), A Sanskrit Reader: Text and Vocabulary and Notes