কি

• কিহ (kih)

From Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what, which”). Compare Punjabi ਕੀ (kī), Gujarati કિયું (kiyũ), Marathi की (kī), Bengali কী (ki), Hindustani क्या (kyā) / کیا (kyā).

• IPA^(key): /ki/, /kiː/

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কি • (ki)

1. what?

   তাইৰ নাম কি? ― tair nam ki? ― What is her name?

   তুমি আহি আছা নেকি? ― tumi ahi asa neki? ― You are coming or-what? (Are you coming?)

• যি (zi)

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /ki/, [ˈkiː], [ˈkiˑ]

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• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /ki/, [ˈkiː], [ˈkiˑ]

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Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀺 (ki), from Sanskrit किम् (kim).

কি • (ki)

1. Forms yes or no questions when placed in the second or final position of a sentence.

   তোমার কি কুকুর আছে? ― tōmar ki kukur ache? ― Do you have a dog?

   তোমার কুকুর আছে কি? ― tōmar kukur ache ki? ― Do you have a dog?

In this usage, it does not have a direct translation as a word in English, it simply makes a statement into a question.

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কি • (ki)

1. (interrogative, often proscribed) what?
2. (rhetorical, often proscribed) such, what, how

The usage of কি as a pronoun has been often proscribed and replaced with কী (ki) in recent times.

Transliteration of English key.

কি • (ki)

1. (computing) key (one of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters)

• কিবোর্ড (kibōrḍo)

কি (ki)

1. (interrogative) what