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"form": "किनको",
"roman": "kinhẽ, kinko",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "किससे",
"roman": "kisse",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "किनसे",
"roman": "kinse",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "किसमें",
"roman": "kismẽ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "किनमें",
"roman": "kinmẽ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "किसपे",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "किसपर",
"roman": "kispe, kispar",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "किनपे",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "किनपर",
"roman": "kinpe, kinpar",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adessive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "किसतक",
"roman": "kistak",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "किनतक",
"roman": "kintak",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "किससा",
"roman": "kissā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "किनसा",
"roman": "kinsā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"ur": "کون"
},
"expansion": "कौन • (kaun) (Urdu spelling کون)",
"name": "hi-pronoun"
}
],
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Apabhramsa terms with redundant transliterations",
"Hindi entries with incorrect language header",
"Hindi interrogative pronouns",
"Hindi lemmas",
"Hindi pronouns",
"Hindi terms derived from Sanskrit",
"Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Apabhramsa",
"Hindi terms inherited from Sanskrit",
"Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Apabhramsa",
"Hindi terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Hindi terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Hindi terms with redundant transliterations",
"Hindi terms with usage examples",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_english_offsets": [
[
0,
3
]
],
"bold_roman_offsets": [
[
0,
4
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
3
]
],
"english": "Who is speaking?",
"roman": "kaun bol rahe ha͠i?",
"text": "कौन बोल रहे हैं?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"who?"
],
"links": [
[
"who",
"who"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(interrogative) who?"
],
"tags": [
"interrogative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɔːn/",
"tags": [
"Delhi"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[kɔ̃ːn]",
"tags": [
"Delhi"
]
},
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}
],
"word": "कौन"
}
Download raw JSONL data for कौन meaning in Hindi (8.1kB)
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'instrumental/ ablative'",
"path": [
"कौन"
],
"section": "Hindi",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "कौन",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'semblative'",
"path": [
"कौन"
],
"section": "Hindi",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "कौन",
"trace": ""
}
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