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kahaṁ

kaha

interrogative pronoun, nominative singular masculine (or where clause occurs, locative singular)

1. where
2. from where
3. to what place

Etymology. Cognate with Sanskrit kah, Greek pou (poû), Latin qui/quō; from Indo-European *kwo-. The locative sense developed from the basic interrogative stem.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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