कट

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /kəʈ/, [kɐʈ]

कट • (kaṭ)

1. inflection of कटना (kaṭnā):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular intimate present imperative

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ʈɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.ʈɐ/

Probably from a Middle Indic form of unattested *कृत (kṛta), from the root कृत् (kṛt, “to spin”).

कट • (kaṭa) stem, m

1. a twist of straw of grass, straw mat, a screen of straw
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā)
   • c. 700 BCE, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti

Of uncertain origin.

Perhaps from an unattested *कृत (kṛta, “curved”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel-to- (“to curve, bend”), and thus cognate with Ancient Greek σκέλος (skélos, “leg”) and Latin scelus (“wicked deed”).

Alternatively, borrowed from Dravidian; compare Tamil கடம் (kaṭam, “mountain side, elephant's temple”), Kannada ಕಡೆ (kaḍe, “side, end”), Telugu కడ (kaḍa, “place; end”). See also कटि (kaṭi, “side, end, hip”).

कट • (kaṭa) stem, m

1. the hip

   Synonym: कटि (kaṭi)

   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. the hollow above the hip or the loins, the hip and loins

Of unclear origin. Probably related to Etymology 1. Alternatively, borrowed from Dravidian; compare Tamil கட்டை (kaṭṭai, “corpse”).

कट • (kaṭa) stem, m

1. a corpse
2. a hearse or any vehicle for conveying a dead body
3. a burning-ground or place of sepulture

Borrowed from Dravidian; compare Telugu గడ్డి (gaḍḍi, “grass, straw”). See also खट (khaṭa, “thatching grass”).

कट • (kaṭa) stem, m

1. an annual plant
2. grass

Of unknown, probably substrate, origin.

कट • (kaṭa) stem, m

1. a thin piece of wood, a plank

Perhaps from Etymology 1, with semantic shift; agreements would be conducted on straw mats in the Classical era. Alternatively, from कृ (kṛ, “to express”).

कट • (kaṭa) stem, m

1. agreement
2. a time or season
3. excess, superabundance
4. environs

See करकट (karakaṭa, “elephant's temples”) / करट (karaṭa, “elephant's temples”).

कट • (kaṭa) stem, m

1. the temples of an elephant
   • c. 400 CE, Kālidāsa, Raghuvaṃśa
2. a glance or side look

   Synonym: कटाक्ष (kaṭākṣa)

   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa
3. a throw of the dice in hazard

Not listed in etymological dictionaries. Perhaps related to Etymologies 3 or 4.

कट • (kaṭa) stem, n

1. (at the end of compounds) dust of flowers

• Monier Williams (1899) “कट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 243/2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 290
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 46
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 141-2
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kaṭi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press