Hindi

Noun

कर्म • ‎(karma) m

1. action, act
2. fate, karma, consequence
3. (grammar) object

Marathi

Noun

कर्म • ‎(karm) m

1. work

Sanskrit

Etymology

Ultimately from the root कृ ‎(kṛ).

Noun

कर्म • ‎(kárma) n

1. action, work, deed
2. execution, performance
3. business, office, duty
4. a religious rite (either नित्य, काम्य, or नैमित्तिक in nature)
5. a specific action or moral duty
6. Performance of religious rites, as opposed to speculative religion or knowledge of Brahman (opp. ज्ञान)
7. product, result of one's work
8. a natural or active property (as support of the earth)
9. fate (dim. कर्मवशः), the certain consequence of acts done in a former life (see English descendant karma, the idea that one reaps what one sows).
10. (grammar) the object of of an action
11. motion considered as one of the seven categories of things (In Vaiś. Phil.)
12. an organ of sense or action
13. (astrology) The tenth lunar mansion.
14. practice, training

Declension

References

• Vaman Shivaram Apte (accessed 10-12-2012), “The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)