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किम् n. aind. (
fr. 1.कि, originally nom. and acc. sg. n. of 2.क॑q.v. ), what? how? whence? wherefore? why?
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किम् b is much used as a particle of interrogation like the
Lat. num, an, sometimes translatable by ‘whether?’ but oftener serving only like a note of interrogation to mark a question (e.g. किं व्याधा वने ऽस्मिन् संचरन्ति, ‘do hunters roam about in this wood?’ In an interrogation the verb, if uncompounded with a preposition, generally retains its accent after , [Pāṇ. 8-1, 44] ). To this sense may be referred the expressing inferiority, deficiency, &c. at the beginning of compounds (e.g. किं-राजन्, what sort of king? i.e. a bad king, [Pāṇ. 2-1, 64; 5-4, 70] )
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किम् also the prefixed to verbs with a similar meaning (
e.g. किम्-अधी-ते, he reads badly, [Pāṇ. 8-1, 44] ,[Kāś.] ) —उत, or —उत-वा or —अथवा—उत, whether—or—or, [R.] ; [Śak.] ; [Bhartṛ.] &c. (cf. उत॑.)
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किम् c is very frequently connected with other particles, as follows:
कि॑म् अङ्ग॑, wherefore then? [RV.]
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