कुत्र

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुत्र (kútra).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /kʊt̪.ɾᵊ/

कुत्र • (kutra) (Urdu spelling کتره)

1. (rare, formal) where

• Platts, John T. (1884) “कुत्र”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kútra, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kútra, from *kú +‎ *-tra; equivalent to कू (kū, “where”) +‎ -त्र (-tra). The first element is from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *kʷú (“where”), formed from the interrogative pronoun stem *kʷ- as in *kʷos, *kʷis. Cognates include Latin necubi, ubi, Avestan 𐬐𐬎𐬛𐬁 (kudā, “where”), 𐬐𐬏 (kū, “where”), Cretan Greek ὀπυι (opui, “whither”), Albanian ku (“where”), Lithuanian kur̃ (“where”). The suffix is also found in तत्र (tátra), यत्र (yátra), and अत्र (átra), and is from Proto-Indo-European *-trom.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kút.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkut̪.ɾɐ/

कुत्र • (kútra)

1. where, whereto, wherefore

• Marathi: कुठे (kuṭhe)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: कुत्र (kutra)
  • Urdu: کتره (kutra)

• Monier Williams (1899) “कुत्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 290.