कुह

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kúdʰa, from Proto-Indo-European *kú-dʰe. See also कुत्र (kútra).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kú.ɦɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ku.ɦɐ/

कुह • (kúha)

1. where (interrogative)

   Synonyms: क्व (kvà), कुत्र (kútra)

   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.129.1:

     नास॑द् आसी॒न् नो सद् आ॑सीत् त॒दानीं॒ नासी॒द् रजो॒ नो व्यो॑मा प॒रो यत् ।
     किम् आव॑रीवः॒ कुह॒ कस्य॒ शर्म॒न्न् अम्भः॒ किम् आ॑सी॒द् गह॑नं गभी॒रम् ॥

     nā́sad āsīn nó sád āsīt tadā́nīṃ nā́sīd rájo nó vyòmā paró yát.
     kím ā́varīvaḥ kúha kásya śármann ámbhaḥ kím āsīd gáhanaṃ gabhīrám.

     Then was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
     What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?

• Pali: kuha

• Monier Williams (1899) “कुह”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 298.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “कुह”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 71
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “kuha”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kuha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 175