कम्

See also: कम

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

ᬓᬫ᭄ (Balinese script)
কম্ (Assamese script)
কম্ (Bengali script)
𑰎𑰦𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀓𑀫𑁆 (Brahmi script)
𑌕𑌮𑍍 (Grantha script)
કમ્ (Gujarati script)
ਕਮੑ (Gurmukhi script)
ꦏꦩ꧀ (Javanese script)
កម៑ (Khmer script)
ಕಮ್ (Kannada script)
ກມ຺ (Lao script)
കമ് (Malayalam script)
𑘎𑘦𑘿 (Modi script)
ᢉᠠᠮ (Mongolian script)
ᡬᠠᠮ (Manchu script)
ကမ် (Burmese script)
𑦮𑧆𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
𑐎𑐩𑑂 (Newa script)
କମ୍ (Oriya script)
ꢒꢪ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
𑆑𑆩𑇀 (Sharada script)
𑖎𑖦𑖿 (Siddham script)
කම් (Sinhalese script)
కమ్ (Telugu script)
กมฺ (Thai script)
ཀ་མ྄ (Tibetan script)
𑒏𑒧𑓂 (Tirhuta script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐm/

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kɐm/

Root

कम् • (kam)

to wish, desire, long for
to love, be in love with
to cause one to love
to have sexual intercourse with

Derived terms

कान्ति (kānti, “desire, loveliness, splendor”)
काम (kā́ma, “desire”)
कामना (kāmanā, “desire”)
कामुक (kāmuka, “wishing for”)
काम्य (kāmya, “desirable”)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “कम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 251.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 017
Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “कम्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016

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