"kā" meaning in Pali

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Pronoun

Etymology: Synchronically, as 'thematic' feminine formed on masculine ka (“who”). This feminine formation goes back at least to Proto-Indo-Iranian *káH. Etymology templates: {{inh|pi|iir-pro|*káH}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *káH Head templates: {{pi-pronoun|f}} kā f Inflection templates: {{pi-decl-noun|kā|datp=kāsaṃ|datp2=kāsānaṃ|datp_mod=replace|dats=kassā|g=f|genp=kāsaṃ|genp2=kāsānaṃ|genp_mod=replace|gens=kassā|novoc=yes}} Forms: feminine [table-tags], [nominative, singular], kāyo [nominative, plural], [nominative, plural], kaṃ [accusative, singular], kāyo [accusative, plural], [accusative, plural], kāya [instrumental, singular], kāhi [instrumental, plural], kābhi [instrumental, plural], kāya [dative, singular], kassā [dative, singular], kāsaṃ [dative, plural], kāsānaṃ [dative, plural], kāya [ablative, singular], kāhi [ablative, plural], kābhi [ablative, plural], kāya [genitive, singular], kassā [genitive, singular], kāsaṃ [genitive, plural], kāsānaṃ [genitive, plural], kāya [locative, singular], kāyaṃ [locative, singular], kāsu [locative, plural]
  1. (interrogative) who Tags: feminine, interrogative
    Sense id: en-kā-pi-pron-btAzcUC9 Categories (other): Pali entries with incorrect language header, Pali pronouns, Pali pronouns in Latin script Disambiguation of Pali entries with incorrect language header: 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Pali pronouns: 55 23 23 Disambiguation of Pali pronouns in Latin script: 86 7 7
  2. (interrogative) what Tags: feminine, interrogative
    Sense id: en-kā-pi-pron-dJqywNBs
  3. (interrogative) which Tags: feminine, interrogative
    Sense id: en-kā-pi-pron-d7wGxV0p
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 𑀓𑀸 [Brahmi, character], [Devanagari, character], [Devanagari, character], [Bengali], [Bengali], [Sinhalese, character], ා [Sinhalese, character], ကာ, [Burmese, character], ႃ [Burmese, character], [Thai, character], า [Thai, character], [Tai-Tham, character], ᩣ [Tai-Tham, character], [Lao, character], [Lao, character], [Khmer, character], ា [Khmer, character], 𑄇𑄂 [Chakma, character]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "ा"
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  "msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Pali]; cleaned text: Locative (seventh)",
  "path": [
    "kā"
  ],
  "section": "Pali",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "kā",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Pali dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.