কাহিনী
Assamese
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit कथानक (kathānaka). Cognate with Bengali কাহিনী (kahinī), Oriya କାହାଣୀ (kahaṇi), Hindustani کَہَانِی / कहानी (kahānī), Marathi कहाणी (kahāṇī), Punjabi ਕਹਾਣੀ (kahāṇī) / کَہانی (kahānī), Gujarati કહાણી (kahāṇī).
Noun
কাহিনী • (kahini)
- story
- Synonyms: সাধু (xadhu), গল্প (golpo)
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kathānaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press