कवि

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कवि (kaví).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /kə.ʋiː/, [kɐ.ʋiː]

कवि • (kavi) m (feminine कवयित्री)

1. poet

From Old Marathi 𑘎𑘪𑘱 (kavi), from Sanskrit कवि (kaví).

• IPA^(key): /kə.ʋi/, [kə.ʋiː]

कवि • (kavi) m

1. poet

• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “कवि”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “कवि”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press
• Tulpule, Shankar Gopal; Feldhaus, Anne, “”, in A Dictionary of Old Marathi, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1999.

कवि m

1. Devanagari script form of kavi

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *káwHiš (“seer, saint, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kowh₁-i-s, from *(s)kewh₁- (“to observe, to perceive”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬌 (kauui), Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos), Latin caveō, Old Armenian ցուցանեմ (cʻucʻanem, “I show”) and English show.

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

कवि • (kaví) stem, m

1. wise man, sage, seer, prophet
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.32.2:

     स मातरा सूर्येणा कवीन्आमवासयद्रुजदद्रिं गृणानः।
     स्वाधीभिरृक्वभिर्वावशान उदुस्रियाणामसृजन्निदानम्॥

     sa mātarā sūryeṇā kavīnāmavāsayadrujadadriṃ gṛṇānaḥ.
     svādhībhirṛkvabhirvāvaśāna udusriyāṇāmasṛjannidānam.

     Amid the sages, with the Sun he brightened the Parents: glorified, he burst the mountain;
     And, roaring with the holy-thoughted singers, he loosed the bond that held the beams of Morning.

2. a singer, bard, poet
3. thinker, intelligent man, man of understanding, leader
4. (figuratively) name of the gates of the sacrificial enclosure (compare कवष् (kaváṣ))

• काव्य (kāvya)

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀓𑀇 (kaï)
• Pali: kavi
• → French: kawi
• → Old Javanese: kawi
  • Javanese: ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi, “Old Javanese; poet”)
  • → Balinese: ᬓᬯᬶ (kawi, “Old Javanese”)
• → Russian: кави (kavi)
• →Tatsama:

  • Bengali: কবি (kobi)
  • Chakma: 𑄇𑄧𑄝𑄨 (kabi)
  • Hindi: कवि (kavi)
  • Kannada: ಕವಿ (kavi)
  • Malay: kawi
  • Malayalam: കവി (kavi)
  • Marathi: कवि (kavi)
  • Punjabi: ਕਵੀ (kavī)
  • Tamil: கவி (kavi)
  • Telugu: కవి (kavi)
  • Thai: กวี (gà-wii)

कवि • (kaví) stem

1. gifted with insight, intelligent, knowing, enlightened, wise, sensible, prudent, skilful, cunning
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.11.4:

     पुरां भिन्दुर्युवा कविर्अमितौजा अजायत।
     इन्द्रो विश्वस्य कर्मणो धर्ता वज्री पुरुष्टुतः॥

     purāṃ bhinduryuvā kaviramitaujā ajāyata.
     indro viśvasya karmaṇo dhartā vajrī puruṣṭutaḥ.

     Crusher of forts, the young, the wise, of strength unmeasured, was he born
     Sustainer of each sacred rite, Indra, the Thunderer, much-extolled.

• “कवि” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 114.
• Monier Williams (1899) “कवि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0264/2.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “कवि”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 065
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 204
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 328-9