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 (ὀpyi, “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

• → 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.