Hindi: कनपटी

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Rainbowlight

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Hello everyone,

I would like to know if there are any words in Hindi that are very similar to कनपटी. It could be a single letter that is changed or maybe a letter sounds like another, but there should be a clear similarity to them.

Could anyone please help me?

thanks in advance for your time and help.
 
    • desi4life said:
    From the Oxford Hindi-English dictionary:

    कनपटी kanpaṭī , f. the temple; the area between the temple and the ear.
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    Thank you. In many European languages, this phenomenon takes place as well: the word referring to the body "temple" seems to be related to the "temple" as a part of the head. I really cannot understand why.

    Are you an Hindi speaker? I wonder if I could ask two or three questions via Direct Message.

    By the way, thanks for your help.
     
    MonsieurGonzalito said:
    The homonimy in English between "temple" = "sacred precint" and "temple" = "side of the head" seems totally coincidental.

    Definition of TEMPLE
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    It might be coincidental. But still I am interested to know if the Hindi word कनपटी has a homograph/homophone/homonym or, at least, a word that's almost identical to it, save for a single letter, for example.

    Thanks for your answer, anyway. : )
     
    OK. You might be interested to know that the "kan" कन part means "ear", and patii पटी means something like "screen, canopy", I think.
    So some changes will still probably mean "ear" something, or the "screen of" something. Still no temple = "sacred place" anywhere.

    These are some rhyming words provided by Shabdkosh:

    कपटी = "trickster"
    कैम्पटी = "Kempty" (some waterfalls in Northern India)
    झपटी = female past participle of झपटना = "to pounce, to lunge".
     
    The best closely resembling word for kanpaTii but meaning not the same thing would be kankaTii (something feminine or a girl who bites the ear). But what is the context of this very strange query?
     
    littlepond said:
    The best closely resembling word for kanpaTii but meaning not the same thing would be kankaTii (something feminine or a girl who bites the ear). But what is the context of this very strange query?
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    I just wanted to know if, as it happens in English and other several languages, the Hindi word for "temple" (as in a part of the human head) was an homophone for the Hindi word for "temple" as "a place of worship".
     
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    Rainbowlight said:
    I just wanted to know if, as it happens in English and other several languages, the Hindi word for "temple" (as in a part of the human head) was an homophone for the Hindi word for "temple" as "a place of worship".
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    The only words I know of that can mean temple as part of the head are कनपटी and गंड, neither of which even remotely resembles any word that means temple as a place of worship. That homophony exists in English and maybe a few other European languages but is not a pan Indo-European phenomenon.
     
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