क्षीरखण्ड kṣhīrkhaṇḍ

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919On this site
cch
śśh
ṣṣh
r̥r̥i

A few reading pointers:

  • ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
  • ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
  • A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

Hindi · n. · m.

Earlier definition

Definition

Milk and sugar.
Affection, close intimacy, intimate friends.

Usual translation

  1. milk and sugar

Origin of the definition

S کهنڐ खण्ड khaṇḍ, s.m. Piece, fragment, part, portion; division (of a house, or a country, or of the earth); subdivision, section (of a work), chapter; apartment (of a house, &c.); side, quarter; district, province, region (much used in the comp. of Indian names of places, e.g. Bundel-khaṇḍ, Anglice, 'Bundlecund'); — coarse sugar ( = khāṅṛ); — a flaw (in a jewel); — the songs of Padmāvat; — a kind of song composed and sung by washermen: — khaṇḍ-bhūmi, s.f. Section of a country, a state, a province, county, district: — khaṇḍ kahnā, To compose a khaṇḍ or song; to recite a khaṇḍ.

क्षीर kṣhīr (sanskrit)

Milk (= shīr).
Thickened milk (= khīr).
Milky juice or sap (of plants).
Water.

A قند qand (the arab. form of P. کنه kand = S. खण्ड khaṇḍ), s.m. White crystallized sugar; loaf-sugar (not sugar-candy, which is termed miṣrī); — (loc.) coarse brown sugar, molasses, treacle (cf. khāṅḍ, or khāṅṛ); — s.f. A kind of cloth, Turkey red.

shīr-shakar, s.m. 'Milk and sugar'; affection; close intimacy; intimate friends; — a kind of silk cloth.

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Created
Friday 18 September 2020
Updated
Thursday 21 March 2024