कबाड़

Unknown.

Perhaps from Sanskrit *कर्व (*karva) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-) + -𑀟- (-ḍa-), a variant of Sanskrit खर्व (kharva, “mutilated; low”) that can be reconstructed from cognates such as Punjabi ਕੱਬ (kabba, “crookedness, perverseness”) and ਕੱਬਾ (kabbā, “rude”), Khetrani کَبّا (kabbā, “left hand”). Compare the semantically unusual but phonetically similar Prakrit 𑀓𑀯𑁆𑀯𑀸𑀟 (kavvāḍa, “right hand”).

Also compare to Hindi कूड़ा (kūṛā, “trash, rubbish”), Marathi केर (ker, “trash”).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kə.bɑːɽ/, [kɐ.bäːɽ]

कबाड़ • (kabāṛ) m (Urdu spelling کباڑ)

1. junk, scrap

   Synonym: रद्दी (raddī)

   कबाड़ से जुगाड़ ― kabāṛ se jugāṛ ― making something useful out of scrap

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*karva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कबाड़”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press