Alternative spellings of this word include Kunch.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kuñc (कुञ्च्).—See कुच् (kuc) II.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kuñc (कुञ्च्).—[kuñca] r. 1st cl. (-u) kuñcu (kuñcati) 1. To go, to go to or towards. 2. To move crookedly. 3. To make crooked. 4. To be crooked. 5. To lessen, to make small. 6. To be or become small, to shrink as a substance. 7. To contract or draw in, (as the thoughts,) Some read this root kuci but needlessly.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kuñc (कुञ्च्).—i. 1, and kuc Kuc, i. 6, [Parasmaipada.] 1. To straiten, to make narrow, [Ṛtusaṃhāra] 4, 16. 2. To bend, [Rāmāyaṇa] 5, 55, 27; [Pañcatantra] 50, 10. 3. To crisp, Mahābhārata 1, 2170. Ii. † kuc kuc, i. 1, [Parasmaipada.] 1. To sound high. 2. To go. 3. To polish. 4. To be crooked. 5. To draw furrows. 6. To resist.

— With the prepos. ā ā, ākuñcita, 1. Compressed, [Rāmāyaṇa] 3, 31, 21. 2. Contracted, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 1, 3. 3. Crisped, Mahābhārata 13, 882.

— With vi vi, vikuñcita, 1. Frowning, Mahābhārata 1, 4112. 2. Crisped, [Ṛtusaṃhāra] 3, 19. [Causal.] kuñcaya, To turn backwards (?), [Rāmāyaṇa] 5, 5, 18.

— With sam sam, kuc. 1. To contract one’s self, [Pañcatantra] 3, 40. 2. To close, [Daśakumāracarita] in Chr. 184, 3. saṃkucita, 1. Contracted, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 3, 74. 2. Shut, [Rāmāyaṇa] 4, 30, 20. Comp. A-saṃkucita, adj. not wrinkled, [Suśruta] 1, 66, 6.

— [Causal.] kocaya, 1. To contract, Mahābhārata 1, 2843. 2. To diminish, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 2, 37.

— Cf. [Latin] quic in conquinisco, conquexi, cūlus for cuc + lus; ; [Gothic.] hauh; [New High German.] hucke in huckeback, etc.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Kuñc (कुञ्च्):—[class] 1. [Parasmaipada] kuñcati, to make crooked, [Dhātupāṭha] : to bend or curve, move crookedly, [Suśruta] :—[Causal] kuñcayati, to curl, crisp, frounce [commentator or commentary] on [Uṇādi-sūtra iv, 117];

2) cf. [Hibernian or Irish] cuachaim, ‘I fold, plait’; cuach, ‘a curl’; cuachach, ‘curled.’

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kuñc (कुञ्च्):—kuñcati 1. a. To go, to move crookedly; to lessen, to contract.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Kuñc (कुञ्च्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Kuṃca.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kunc in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with (+81): Koonch, Kumcadiga, Kumcaka, Kumcambidi, Kumcanige, Kumcanmadhya, Kumcanmula, Kumcatiga, Kumcavadiga, Kumcavaduga, Kumci, Kumciga, Kumcige, Kumcike, Kumcisu, Kumcitakesha, Kumcitakeshapasha, Kumcitiga, Kumciya, Kumciya.

Ends with: Akunc, Nikunc, Parikunc, Samkunc, Samnikunc, Vikunc.

Full-text (+37): Kuc, Kuncana, Akuncana, Kunca, Vyakuncita, Kunci, Kuncika, Kuncita, Nikuncaka, Samkoca, Nikuncana, Kuncitanguli, Avakuncana, Nikunc, Pratikuncita, Samkuncita, Nikuncita, Samakuncita, Prakunca, Vikunc.

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