काव्य

Borrowed from Sanskrit काव्य (kāvyá).

• IPA^(key): [kaːʋjə]

काव्य • (kāvya) m (Urdu spelling کاویہ‎)

1. poem
2. poetry

• कविता (kavitā)

From Sanskrit काव्य (kāvyá)

• IPA^(key): [kaːʋjə]

काव्य • (kāvya) n

1. poem
2. poetry

• कविता (kavitā)

From कवि (kaví).

काव्य • (kāvyá)

1. endowed with the qualities of a sage or poet, descended or coming from a sage, prophetic, inspired, poetical
2. coming from or uttered by the sage उशनस् (uśanas)
3. of the planet शुक्र (śukra, “Venus”)

काव्य • (kāvyá) m

1. a patronymic of उशनस् (uśanas)
2. a class of Manes
3. the descendants of कवि (kavi)
4. name of a female fiend (= पूतना (pūtanā))

काव्य • (kāvyá) n

1. wisdom, intelligence, prophetic inspiration, high power and art (often in plural)
2. (poetry) poem, poetical composition with a coherent plot by a single author (opposed to an इतिहास (itihāsa))
3. term for the first tetrastich in the metre षट्पद (ṣaṭ-pada)
4. (drama) a kind of drama of one act
5. a kind of poem (composed in Sanskrit interspersed with Prakrit)
6. happiness, welfare

• Burmese: ကဗျာ (ka.bya)
• Telugu: కావ్యము (kāvyamu)

• “काव्य” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, OCLC 186102264, page 120.
• Monier Williams (1899), “काव्य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0280.
• Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 068
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 219