कतर

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *katarás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kátaras, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros, from *kʷos (“which”) (whence also क (ká)). Cognate with Ancient Greek πότερος (póteros), Lithuanian katràs, Russian который (kotoryj), Old English hwæþer (whence English whether).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ.tɐ.ɾɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.t̪ɐ.ɾɐ/

Pronoun

कतर • (katará)

1. who, which (of two)?; whether (of two)?

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “कतर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0246.