क्व

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

क्व  n.  ind. ( fr. 1. कु, [Pāṇ. 5-3, 12; 5-2, 105]) loc. of 2. क॑ = कस्मिन्, or कतरस्मिन्, [Mn. x, 66] ( क्व श्रेयस्-त्वम्, in whom is the preference?), [Kathās. lxxxiii, 36]
अह   where? in what place? whither? [RV.] (sometimes connected with particles , इ॑द्, इव, स्वि॑द्) &c.
नु   (connected with ), [Nal.]; [Mālav.]
नु खलु   (with ), [Śak.]
भू   (with √ , √ अस्) how is it with? what has become of? i.e. it is done with, [RV. i, 161, 4; vii, 88, 5]; [AV. x, 8, 7]; [ŚBr.]; [Pāṇ. 3-1, 12], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]
गत   (with ) how is it with? [Nal.]; [Daś.] ( क्व गतस् तव मय्य् अनुरागः, what has become of your affection for me ?)
क्व   or alone may have the same meaning (e. g. क्व सुखम्, where is happiness? i.e. there is no such thing as happiness, [Śāntiś.]), [Pañcat.]; [Naiṣ. i, 20]
(after a negative phrase) how much less? [R. i, 67, 10]
क्व   - or कुत्र-क्व (implying excessive incongruity) where is this? where is that? how distant is this from that? how little does this agree with that? ( e.g. क्व सूर्य-प्रभवो वंशः क्व चा-ल्प-विषया मतिः, how can my limited intellect describe the solar race? [Ragh. i, 2]), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
क्वापि   , anywhere, somewhere, to some place, in a certain place, [Nal.]; [Pañcat.]; [Kathās.]
sometimes, [Sāh.]; [Hit.]
न क्व च   , nowhere, never, [BhP. iv, 29, 64]
न क्व चन   , nowhere, [MBh. xiv, 560]
क्व चिद्   = कस्मिनिश्-चिद्, [Pañcat.]
anywhere, somewhere, to any place, in a certain place, [Mn.]; [R.]; [Śak.] &c.
in a certain case, at some time, once upon a time, [Nal.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
sometimes Comm.
क्वचिद्-क्वचिद्   , here - there, here and there, in various places, [MBh. i]

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क्वचिद् क्वचिद्

now - then, now and then, [R. iii, 50, 7]; [Bhartṛ. i, 4]
न क्वचिद्   , nowhere, never, by no means, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Nal.] &c.
क्वचिद् अपि न    id., [Megh.]
यत्र क्वापि   , wherever, in whatsoever place, [Bhartṛ. iii, 91]
यत्र क्व-च    id., [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.]; [Lāṭy.]; [BhP.]

ROOTS:

यत्र क्व च

यत्र क्व-चन   , in or to whatsoever place

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यत्र क्व चन

in any case or matter whatever, [Mn. ix, 233]
whenever, [BhP. v, 21, 9]
यत्र क्व वाथ   - तत्र तत्रा-पि, wherever-there, [BhP. i, 17, 36.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

क्व [kva]   ind.
Whither, where; क्व तेऽन्योन्यं यत्नाः क्व च नु गहनाः कौतुकरसाः [U.6.33;] क्व-क्व when repeated in co-ordinate sentences imply 'great difference' or 'incougruity'; क्व रुजा हृदयप्रमाथिनी क्व च ते विश्वसनीयमायुधम् [M.3.2;] क्व सूर्य- प्रभवो वंशः क्व चाल्पविषया मतिः [R.1.2;] [Ki.1.6;] [Ś.2.19.]
Sometimes क्व is used in the sense of the loc. of किम्; क्व प्रदेशे i. e. कस्मिन्प्रदेशे. क्वचन Somewhere; क्वचन पतनयोग्यं देशमन्विष्यताधः N.; यत्र क्वचन वत्स्यामि [Bhāg.1.17.36.] न-क्व-च Nowhere, never; नानुभूतं क्व चानेन देहेनादृष्टमश्रुतम् [Bhāg.4.] 29.65. न क्वचन Nowhere; [Mb.14.] (a) With a following अपि it means (1) somewhere, anywhere; (2) sometimes. (b) With a following चित् it means (1) in some places; प्रस्निग्धाः क्वचिदिङ्गुदीफलभिदः सूच्यन्त एवोपलाः [Ś.1.14;] [Ṛs.1.2.] [R.1.41;] (2) in some cases; क्वचिद् गोचरः क्वचिन्न गोचरोऽर्थः. क्वचित्-क्वचित् (a) in one place-in another place, here-here; क्वचिद्वीणावाद्यं क्वचिदपि च हाहेति रुदितम् [Bh.3.125,1.4.] (b) now-now (referring to time); क्वचित् पथा संचरते सुराणां क्वचित् घनानां पततां क्वचिच्च [R.13.19.]

Shabda-Sagara

क्व   ind. Where, in what place or degree.

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

See : कुत्रापि, कुत्र, कुत्र