(p. 206) karkaśa rough; harsh; gruff, hoarse, husky; rude; cruel. ̃তা n. roughness; harshness; hoarseness, huskiness; rudeness; cruelty. ̃ভাবে adv. harshly, roughly, rudely. 26)

(p. 248) kusti wrestling; (fig.) struggling, vying. কুস্তি করা, কুস্তি লড়া v. to wrestle; (fig.) to struggle. ̃গির n. a wrestler. 12)

(p. 243) kubhōjana act of eating bad or harmful food; bad or harmful food. 15)

(p. 243) kula1 the jujube. 66)

(p. 234) kimpuruṣa a Kinnar (কিন্নর); (myth.) a province of ancient India or a country in the neighbourhood of India. 32)

(p. 194) kanakana denoting a twinging or painful sensation; smarting; shivering with cold. কনকন করা, কনকনানো v. to twinge; to ache, to smart; to feel smarting pain; to shiver with cold. কনকনানি n. twinge; aching; the bite of cold; shivering caused by cold. কনকনে a. (of pain) twinging, smarting; (of cold) biting or piercing. 112)

(p. 253) kēśākarṣaṇa pulling one by the hair, pulling one's hair. কেশাকর্ষণ করা v. to pull one's hair; to pull one by the hair. 52)

(p. 192) kakubha a metre of Vedic poetry; an Indian musical mode; a direction, a side. 15)

(p. 243) kurukṣētra a place near New Delhi where the Kauravas (কৌরব) and the Pandavas (পাণ্ডব) of the Mahabharata fought each other; (fig.) a terrible fight or noisy quarrel or brawl (কুরুক্ষেত্র বেধেছে). কুরুক্ষেত্র ব্যাপার (fig.—often facet.) an affair as terrible as the fight of Kurukshetra (কুরুক্ষেত্র). 55)

(p. 220) kāji a Muslim judge or interpreter of laws. 4)

(p. 217) kākā younger brother of one's father, an uncle. fem. কাকি the wife of an uncle, an aunt. ̃সংক্রান্ত, ̃বিষয়ক a. avuncular; of an uncle. 20)

(p. 234) kila a fist; a blow with the fist esp. with the side of the fist, কিল খেয়ে কিল চুরি করা to take a beating or insult silently and without retaliation, to endure humiliation or affront without protest, to pocket an insult. কিল মারা v. to strike with the fist, to fist. কিলাকিলি n. fighting with fists; fisticuffs, blows and counterblows. কিলানো same as কিল মারা । কিলিয়ে কাঁঠাল পাকানো to make a futile attempt at correcting or subduing a person by overmuch beating or chastisement; to spoil a person or hinder his natural development by excessive interference; to try to do the impossible by injudicious or rash means. কিল মারার গোঁসাই an over-assertive person or master who has no competence to maintain his dependents. 47)

(p. 208) kalama1 a column of a newspaper, a book etc. 53)

(p. 257) kōnā a corner; a bay; the narrow inside of a room; a nook. ̃কুনি, ̃কোনি adv. diagonally; slantwise, athwart. a. diagonal; slantwise; athwart. ̃চে a. aslant; awry. 14)

(p. 240) kuṭanī a female pander; a procuress, a pimp, a bawd. ̃গিরি n. the profession of the female pander or procuress, bawdry. 9)