कलंक

Hindi edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Sanskrit कलङ्क (kalaṅka), possibly ultimately related to Latin caligo (“fog, mist, vapor”), Ancient Greek κελαινός (kelainós, “dark, black, swarthy”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /kə.ləŋk/, [kɐ.lɐ̃ŋk]

Noun edit

कलंक • (kalaṅk) m

Declension edit

Declension of कलंक (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	कलंक kalaṅk	कलंक kalaṅk
oblique	कलंक kalaṅk	कलंकों kalaṅkõ
vocative	कलंक kalaṅk	कलंको kalaṅko

References edit

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कलंक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

^ DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992, p. 82
^ Cooper, B. (2003). Of Cabbages and Kings: Lexicological and Etymological Studies on Russian Plant Nomenclature. United Kingdom: Astra Press, p. 143

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