कर्तव्य

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्तव्य (kartavya).

कर्तव्य • (kartavya) m

1. duty, role, obligation

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्तव्य (kartavya).

• IPA^(key): /kəɾ.t̪əʋ.jə/

कर्तव्य • (kartavya) n

1. duty

• कर्तव्यदक्ष (kartavyadakṣa, “dutiful”)
• कर्तव्यनिष्ठ (kartavyaniṣṭha, “dutiful”)

• Berntsen, Maxine, “कर्तव्य”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983.
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857), “कर्तव्य”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911), “कर्तव्य”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press

From the root कृ (kṛ) +‎ -तव्य (-tavya).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ́ɾ.t̪ɐ.ʋi.jɐ/, /kɐɾ.t̪ɐ.ʋí.jɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈt̪ɐʋ.jɐ/

कर्तव्य • (kártavya or kartavyà) (metrical Vedic kartaviya)

1. future passive participle of कृ (kṛ); to be made, performed or done, to be accomplished
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā) I.5.2.4:

     अथो खलु संभृत्या एव संभराः कर्तव्यं यजुर्यज्ञस्य समृद्ध्यै

     átho khálu sambhṛ́tyā evá sambhārā́ḥ kartavyàṃ yájuryajñásya sámṛddhyai

     Likewise, they say: "the apparatus should be collected and the Yajus should be performed, for the prosperity of the sacrifice."

   • c. 700 BCE, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
   • c. 700 BCE – 500 BCE, Aitareya Brāhmaṇa
   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti

कर्तव्य • (kartavya) n

1. any work that should be done; a duty, obligation, task

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀓𑀢𑀯𑁆𑀬 (katavya), 𐨐𐨚𐨬‎ (kaṭava), 𑀓𑀝𑀯𑀺𑀬 (kaṭaviya) (see there for further descendants)
• Pali: kattabba
• → Gujarati: કર્તવ્ય (kartavya)
• → Hindi: कर्तव्य (kartavya)
• → Kannada: ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ (kartavya)
• → Marathi: कर्तव्य (kartavya)
• → Tamil: கர்தவ்ய (kartavya)
• → Telugu: కర్తవ్యము (kartavyamu)

• Monier Williams (1899), “कर्तव्य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 257.