(p. 194) kaṭhōra hard; stern, harsh; firm, steady, unflinching; merciless, cruel, heartless (কঠোর শাসক); strict, severe; difficult; intense; serious (কঠোর ব্যাধি); dull; rough (কঠোর অবয়ব). ̃তা n. hardness; sternness, harshness; firmness, steadiness; mercilessness, cruelty, heartlessness; strictness, severity; difficulty; intensity; seriousness; dullness; roughness. 35)

(p. 248) kusaṃskāra superstition. ̃গ্রস্ত, কুসংস্কারাচ্ছন্ন a. superstition-ridden, superstitious. ̃মূলক a. caused by superstition, superstitious. 2)

(p. 232) kālōjirē black cummin. 33)

(p. 228) kārabāra business, trade; profession; calling; working, action; commerce; a business concern, a mercantile concern; (usu. dero.) an affair. কারবার করা v. to engage in a trade or business; to deal in, to trade in; to trade with; to have commercial transactions (with). কারবারি a. pertaining to business, trading; commercial. কারবারি লোক a businessman, a trader; (dero.) a trafficker. 21)

(p. 204) karapatra a hand-saw; a saw. 36)

(p. 237) kīla, kīlaka a bolt; a peg; a stake; a wedge; a nail; a probe. কীলকাকার a. wedge-shaped, cuneal, cuneate; (of alphabetical letters) cuneiform, cuneatic. কীলকলিপি n. cuneiform writing. 6)

(p. 192) kaṅkāla a skeleton; a bone. ̃মালী n. one who wears a garland of bones; an appellation of Shiva (শিব). ̃মালিনী n. fem. one who wears a garland of bones; an appellation of Goddess Kali (কালী). ̃সার a. reduced to bones or to a skeleton, one who is only skin and bone, (cp.) a bag of bones. 27)

(p. 248) kṛtābhyāsa one who has practised or received training, practised, trained. 47)

(p. 240) kutūhala inquisitiveness, curiosity; delight, pleasure; sport. কুতূহলী a. inquisitive, curious; delighted; sportive. কুতূহলে adv. (poet.) delightedly; sportively; owing to delight. 40)

(p. 194) kapiñjala the Indian swallow; the chatak; the sandpiper, the lapwing. 151)

(p. 248) kasīda interest on loan; the moneylending business or interest, usury. ̃জীবী n. a usurer, a money-lender on interest. ̃ব্যবহার n. usury; calculation of interest on loan. 7)

(p. 253) kērāsina, kērōsina kerosene. 42)

(p. 240) kuṇḍa a hole, a cavity (নাভিকুণ্ড, হোমকুণ্ড); a tank or lake or basin etc. (সীতাকুণ্ড); a round and shallow receptacle (তাম্রকুণ্ড). 33)

(p. 240) kuñji a key. 3)

(p. 237) kun̐cakānō to contract, to shrink; to shrivel. a contracted; shrunk; shrivelled. ভুরু কুঁচকানো v. to contract one's eyebrows; to knit one's brows; to frown. 14)