کوا

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi کَوا (kau(v)ā /⁠kvā⁠/) (c. 1609),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀸𑀬 (kāya), from Sanskrit काक (kā́ka).[2]

Cognates

Compare Kashmiri کاو (kāv), Punjabi کاں (kāṉ) and کَن٘و (kaṉv), Sindhi ڪَان (kā̃) and ڪَاءُن (kā̃ũ), Shina کاں (kā̃), Bengali কাউয়া (kauẏa). Doublet of کاگ (kāg).

Pronunciation

Noun

کَوَّا • (kavvā) m (Hindi spelling कौआ or कौवा)

  1. crow, raven
  2. jackdaw
  3. (figuratively) cunning

Declension

Declension of کوا
singular plural
direct کَوَّا (kavvā) کَوَّے (kavve)
oblique کَوَّے (kavve) کَوَّوں (kavvõ)
vocative کَوَّے (kavve) کَوَّو (kavvo)

References

  1. ^ “کوا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kā́ka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 152

Further reading

More information
  • “کوا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کوا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “کوا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “کوا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 953
  • John Shakespear (1834) “کوا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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