(p. 202) kabi a poet; a scholar; a philosopher; a kind of song-tournament, this song (cp. strophe and antistrophe), its composer or singer. ̃ওয়ালা n. a composer of songs for a song-tournament; a singer of these songs; the leader of a party competing in a song-tournament. ̃কল্পনা n. a visionary thing; fanciful imagination; a baseless and unreal conception; (rare) poetic imagination. ̃কল্পিত a. visionary; fanciful; baseless and unreal; imagined or invented by a poet. ̃গান n. a kind of song-tournament or duel; a song for this tournament. ̃গুরু n. the first poet; the chief of poets. ̃জনোচিত a. befitting a poet, poetical. কবির লড়াই a kind of song-tournament; a contest of poets. কবিতা n. a poem; a verse; a couplet; poetry. কবিত্ব n. poetical imagination or talent, poetry; poetic quality. কবিত্বপূর্ণ, কবিত্বময় a. full of poetry; full of poetic quality; endowed with a talent for composing poems. কবিত্ব শক্তি n. poetical talent or genius. ̃প্রসিদ্ধি n. any imaginative description of nature originally made by a poet and afterwards repeated by other poets, a poetical convention. ̃বর n. a great poet, a master poet. কবি সম্মেলন n. an assembly or conference of poets. কবীশ n. the chief among poets. 15)

(p. 202) kabōṣṇa lukewarm, tepid. 22)

(p. 234) kiśōra adolescent; teenaged. n. an adolescent boy, an adolescent; a teenager; a lad. fem. কিশোরী । ̃বয়স্ক a. adolescent; teenaged. 53)

(p. 208) kaṣā2 astringent; tight; strict, severe; niggardly, close-fisted; constipative (কষা ধাত); (of meat, fish etc.) signed in oil or fat and with spices. v. to try (gold etc.) on a streak-plate; to work out (a mathematical sum); to calculate (price etc.); to singe (meat, fish etc.) in oil or fat and with spices; to tighten; to bind tightly; to tan (hides); to make astringent. ̃কষি n. unswerving enforcement of rule, law etc; rigour, strictness; act of tightening; tugging and counter-tugging; higgling (দরকষাকষি); strained state, estrangement (মনকষাকষি). কষাকষি করা v. to enforce strictness or rigour; to tighten; to contest or try laboriously. দর কষাকষি করা v. to higgle, to chaffer. মন কষাকষি করা v. to estrange oneself (from); to quarrel (with). কষানো v. to singe meat; to tan (hides). কষাটে a. slightly astringent; (fig.) divested of taste or flavour; (fig.) loathsome, disgusting. কষা মাংস n. singed meat; meat cooked with oil and spices. 106)

(p. 243) kurtā a small jacket or coat or shirt. লালকুর্তা n. the Red Shirts; patriotic and social welfare organization of NorthWest Frontier formed by Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan in India's pre-independence days. 61)

(p. 208) kalpaka one who or that which imagines or composes or plans or ascribes. 88)

(p. 234) kiṇba leaven, ferment; sin. 19)

(p. 220) kāñci an ornament worn round the waist, a girdle, a sash (কাঞ্চিদাম). 9)

(p. 240) kuṭhi an office or the head office of a business organization (নীলকুঠি); a house, a building; a bungalow; an official residence of a high-ranking government officer (ম্যাজিসট্রেটের কুঠি). কুঠিয়াল n. the owner or the manager of a factory or a business organization; a factor; a merchant. 22)

(p. 234) kisamata luck, lot; destiny. 56)

(p. 243) kumāra2 a young boy; a son; a prince; a crown price; a prince-royal; Kartikeya (কার্তিকেয়) the commander-in-chief of the heavenly hosts; an unmarried or celibate man, a bachelor. ̃ব্রত n. the vow of celibacy. 22)

(p. 217) kākali, kākalī a low sweet and indistinct murmur or chirping. 18)

(p. 220) kāṭhi a small chip of wood, bamboo, metal etc. (used as a match-stick, toothpick etc.) কাঠি-কাঠি a. composed of very thin bones; very thin. কাঠি দেওয়া v. (vul.) to try to irritate or harm or foil, to baffle or frustrate. 40)

(p. 234) kiṅkiṇi, kiṅkiṇī a girdle or an anklet set with small bells jingling sweetly at every movement. 10)

(p. 262) krētabya worth buying, that which can be or is to be bought, buyable, purchasable. 40)