खन्

See also: ख़ून

Nepali

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kʰʌn]
Phonetic Devanagari: खन्

Verb

खन् • (khan)

inflection of खन्नु (khannu):
1. stem
2. low-respectful second-person singular imperative

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

খন্ (Assamese script)
ᬔᬦ᭄ (Balinese script)
খন্ (Bengali script)
𑰏𑰡𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀔𑀦𑁆 (Brahmi script)
ခန် (Burmese script)
ખન્ (Gujarati script)
ਖਨ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌖𑌨𑍍 (Grantha script)
ꦑꦤ꧀ (Javanese script)
𑂎𑂢𑂹 (Kaithi script)
ಖೝ (Kannada script)
ខន៑ (Khmer script)
ຂນ຺ (Lao script)
ഖന് (Malayalam script)
ᡘᠠᠨ (Manchu script)
𑘏𑘡𑘿 (Modi script)
ᠻᠠᠨ (Mongolian script)
𑦯𑧁𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
𑐏𑐣𑑂 (Newa script)
ଖନ୍ (Odia script)
ꢓꢥ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
𑆒𑆤𑇀 (Sharada script)
𑖏𑖡𑖿 (Siddham script)
ඛන් (Sinhalese script)
𑩝𑩯 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
𑚋𑚝𑚶 (Takri script)
க²ந் (Tamil script)
ఖౝ (Telugu script)
ขนฺ (Thai script)
ཁ་ན྄ (Tibetan script)
𑒐𑒢𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
𑨌𑨝𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanH-der.

Sanskrit खन्

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanH- (“to dig”), though the aspiration is unexplained: probably either spurious/onomatopoeic or due to contamination from the unrelated root of खा (khā́, “spring, source”).

Root

खन् • (khan)

to dig, dig up, delve, turn up the soil, excavate, root up
to pierce (said of an arrow)

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

खनति (khanati, present)
खनिष्यति (khaniṣyati, future)
खनिता (khanitā, periphrastic future)
अखनीत् (akhanīt, aorist)
अखानीत् (akhānīt, aorist)
खन्यात् (khanyāt, benedictive)
खायात् (khāyāt, benedictive)
चखान (cakhāna, perfect)

Secondary forms

खायते (khāyate, passive)
खन्यते (khanyate, passive)
खानयति (khānayati, causative)
अचीखनत् (acīkhanat, causative aorist)
चिखनिषति (cikhaniṣati, desiderative)
चङ्खन्यते (caṅkhanyate, intensive)
चाखायते (cākhāyate, intensive)

Non-finite forms

खा॒त (khātá, past participle)
खनि॑तुम् (khánitum, infinitive)
खनित्वा (khanitvā, gerund)
खात्वा (khātvā, gerund)
खात्वी (khātvī, gerund)
खाय (khāya, gerund)
खानम् (khānam, gerund)
खननीय (khananīya, gerundive)
खान्य (khānya, gerundive)
खेय (kheya, gerundive)

Derived nominal forms

ख (khá)
खा (khā)
ख॒न (khaná)
खनक (khanaka)
खनन (khanana)
ख॒नि (khaní)
ख॒नि॒तृ (khanitṛ́)
ख॒नित्र॑ (khanítra)
खर (khara)
खातृ (khātṛ)
खानक (khānaka)
खानि (khāni)
खु (khu)

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root खन् (0 c, 18 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root खन् (12 c, 0 e)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “खन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 336/3.
William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 32

Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 445-6
Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “khanⁱ”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 275–276
Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*kanH¹”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 232–233