कचहरी
Hindi
Etymology
From Sauraseni Prakrit, from Sanskrit *कृत्यघरिका (kṛtyagharikā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kə.t͡ʃɛːʱ.ɾiː/
Noun
कचहरी • (kacahrī) f
- (law) court
- Synonyms: अदालत (adālat), न्यायालय (nyāyālay), कोर्ट (korṭ), इजलस (ijlas)
- group, crowd
Declension
| Declension of कचहरी | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |
| Direct | कचहरी (kacahrī) | कचहरियाँ (kacahriyā̃) |
| Oblique | कचहरी (kacahrī) | कचहरियों (kacahriyõ) |
| Vocative | कचहरी (kacahrī) | कचहरियो (kacahriyo) |
Descendants
- → Gujarati: કચેરી (kacerī)
- → Marathi: कचेरी (kacerī)
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “कचहरी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kr̥tyagharikā (3429)”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press