हकार
Nepali
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɦʌkäɾʌ]
- Phonetic Devanagari: h्aक्āर्a
Verb
हकार • (hakāra)
- second-person mid respect singular imperative of हकार्नु (hakārnu)
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- hakāra (Latin script)
- 𑀳𑀓𑀸𑀭 (Brahmi script)
- হকার (Bengali script)
- හකාර (Sinhalese script)
- ဟကာရ or ႁၵႃရ (Burmese script)
- หการ or หะการะ (Thai script)
- ᩉᨠᩣᩁ (Tai Tham script)
- ຫກາຣ or ຫະກາຣະ (Lao script)
- ហការ (Khmer script)
- 𑄦𑄇𑄂𑄢 (Chakma script)
Noun
हकार m
- Devanagari script form of hakāra (“the letter 'h'”)
- c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar] (in Pali), page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
- चसहग्गहणेन धकारस्स हकारादेसो होति;
- Casahaggahaṇena dhakārassa hakārādeso hoti;
- By taking it together with 'ca', one gets a change of 'dh' to 'h';
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Declension
Declension table of "हकार" (masculine)
Case \\ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | हकारो (hakāro) | हकारा (hakārā) |
Accusative (second) | हकारं (hakāraṃ) | हकारे (hakāre) |
Instrumental (third) | हकारेन (hakārena) | हकारेहि (hakārehi) or हकारेभि (hakārebhi) |
Dative (fourth) | हकारस्स (hakārassa) or हकाराय (hakārāya) or हकारत्थं (hakāratthaṃ) | हकारानं (hakārānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | हकारस्मा (hakārasmā) or हकारम्हा (hakāramhā) or हकारा (hakārā) | हकारेहि (hakārehi) or हकारेभि (hakārebhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | हकारस्स (hakārassa) | हकारानं (hakārānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | हकारस्मिं (hakārasmiṃ) or हकारम्हि (hakāramhi) or हकारे (hakāre) | हकारेसु (hakāresu) |
Vocative (calling) | हकार (hakāra) | हकारा (hakārā) |
Sanskrit
Etymology
ह (ha, the letter) + कार (kāra, term designating a letter or sound).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ɦɐˈkɑː.ɾɐ/
Noun
हकार • (hakāra) m
- The name of the Devanagari letter ह (ha).
- the sound of the ह letter, /ɦɐ/
Inflection
Masculine a-stem declension of हकार | |||
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Nom. sg. | हकारः (hakāraḥ) | ||
Gen. sg. | हकारस्य (hakārasya) | ||
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | हकारः (hakāraḥ) | हकारौ (hakārau) | हकाराः (hakārāḥ) |
Vocative | हकार (hakāra) | हकारौ (hakārau) | हकाराः (hakārāḥ) |
Accusative | हकारम् (hakāram) | हकारौ (hakārau) | हकारान् (hakārān) |
Instrumental | हकारेन (hakārena) | हकाराभ्याम् (hakārābhyām) | हकारैः (hakāraiḥ) |
Dative | हकाराय (hakārāya) | हकाराभ्याम् (hakārābhyām) | हकारेभ्यः (hakārebhyaḥ) |
Ablative | हकारात् (hakārāt) | हकाराभ्याम् (hakārābhyām) | हकारेभ्यः (hakārebhyaḥ) |
Genitive | हकारस्य (hakārasya) | हकारयोः (hakārayoḥ) | हकारानाम् (hakārānām) |
Locative | हकारे (hakāre) | हकारयोः (hakārayoḥ) | हकारेषु (hakāreṣu) |
Hypernyms
- कण्ठ्य (kaṇṭhya, “guttural”)
- घोष (ghoṣa, “voiced”)
- महाप्राण (mahāprāṇa, “aspirated”)
Coordinate terms
guttural letters and sounds
- ककार (kakāra)
- खकार (khakāra)
- गकार (gakāra)
- घकार (ghakāra)
- ङकार (ṅakāra)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “हकार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1286.