The corpus record — Sanskrit
a particle placed after the word to which it belongs with an affirmative sense, ‘yes’, ‘well’ (but this sense is generally so weak that Indian grammarians are perhaps right in enumerating kam among the expletives, Nir. ; it is often found attached to a dat. case, giving to that case a stronger meani
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1. كَم
a particle placed after the word to which it belongs with an affirmative sense, ‘yes’, ‘well’ (but this sense is generally so weak that Indian grammarians are perhaps right in enumerating kam among the expletives, Nir. ; it is often found attached to a dat. case, giving to that case a stronger meani
2. كَم
kam is also used as an enclitic with the particles nu, su, and hi (but is treated in the Pada-pāṭha as a separate word; in this connection kam has no accent but once, AV. vi, 110, 1 ), RV. ; AV.
3. كَم
2. kam cl. 1. Ā. (not used in the conjugational tenses) cakame, kamitā, kamiṣyate, acakamata, Dhātup. xii, 10 to wish, desire, long for, RV. v, 36, 1 ; x, 117, 2 ; AV. xix, 52, 3 ; ŚBr. ; Ragh. &c.; to love, be in love with, have sexual intercourse with, ŚBr. xi ; BhP. : Caus. Ā. ( ep. also P. )
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