کہانی

Feminine of کَہانا (kahānā), first attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi کَہانی (kahānī), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀥𑀸𑀡𑀕 (kadhāṇaga), from Sanskrit कथानक (kathānaka). Cognate with Punjabi کَہاݨی (kahāṇī) / ਕਹਾਣੀ (kahāṇī), Gujarati કહાણી (kahāṇī), Marathi कहाणी (kahāṇī), Odia କାହାଣୀ (kahaṇi), Bengali কাহিনী (kahini), Assamese কাহিনী (kahini).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kə.ɦɑː.niː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: کَ‧ہا‧نی

کَہانی • (kahānī) f (Hindi spelling कहानी)

1. story, tale
2. an account, narrative (either in past or present)
3. plot (to a book, movie or some play etc.)
4. (figuratively) lie, fiction

• “کہانی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کہانی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کہانی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “کہانی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “کـﮩـانی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “كہاني”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kathānaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press