क्यों

Hindi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi क्यूं (kyūṃ), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa किंव (kiṃva), केंव (keṃva), from the interrogative base in क्- (k-) + एंव (eṃva), for which see यों (yõ).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /kjũː/
  • (formal, uncommon) (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /kjõː/

Adverb

क्यों • (kyõ) (Urdu spelling کیوں)

  1. why
    तूने इस तरह का घर क्यों बनाया?
    tūne is tarah kā ghar kyõ banāyā?
    Why did you make this kind of house?
    क्यों नहीं? ― kyõ nahī̃? ― Why not?

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References

  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “क्यों”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • 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 284
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