کاج

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کاج • (kâj)

1. pine tree
2. fir tree

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kɑːd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd͡ʒ
• Hyphenation: کاج

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀚𑁆𑀚 (kajja), from Sanskrit कार्य (kāryà).

کاج • (kāj) m (Hindi spelling काज)

1. work, business

Borrowed from Portuguese casa [de botão].

کاج • (kāj) m (Hindi spelling काज)

1. buttonhole

• Xavier, Anthony Soares, transl. (1936) [1913], Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages, Baroda: Oriental Institute, translation of Influencia do Vocabulario Português em Línguas Asiáticas by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (in Portuguese), →ISBN, page 83, column 1: “Hindust. kàj”
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “کاج”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 895
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کاج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 799
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• John Shakespear (1834) “کاج”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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