क्रिया

Hindi

noun
Definitions
  • (grammar) verb
  • doing, performance
  • action, act, deed
  • undertaking
  • business
  • use
  • work, labour; literary work
  • medical treatment or practice
  • religious act or ceremony, pious act, a duty
  • obsequies
  • oath

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit क्रिया (verb, act) root from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (do, make, build, construct, a kind of dish pot).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*kʷer-

Gloss

do, make, build, construct, a kind of dish pot

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

建

Emoji

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