(p. 243) kubaidya a bad or inept physician; a quack. 13)

(p. 237) kun̐ci a small broom or besom; a brush; a bristle. 17)

(p. 225) kāpuruṣa a coward, a poltroon; a faint-hearted or hen-hearted person. a. cowardly, poltroon; faint-hearted, henhearted. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. cowardice; cowardliness; faint-heartedness. কাপুরুষোচিত a. cowardly, befitting a coward or a chicken-hearted person. 12)

(p. 253) kēdārā1 a chair. 13)

(p. 253) kaiphiẏata what is said to account for something, a cause shown, an explanation. কৈফিয়ত কাটা v. to try to clear up a charge rather impertinently; (bookkeeping) to explain the difference between the debit and the credit side of an accounts book. কৈফিয়ত চাওয়া v. to bring to account, to call to account, to demand an explanation, to take to task. কৈফিয়ত দেওয়া v. to give an explanation. 61)

(p. 261) kauśikī (in Hindu mythology) a form of the primordial Female Energy. 9)

(p. 204) karakurcāshi the carpal bone, the carpal. 26)

(p. 226) kāmaṭha of or pertaining to the tortoise. n. tortoise meat; (dial.) the tortoise. 10)

(p. 202) kabula confessions; acknowledgement; promise. a. categorical, explicit; accepting the responsibility or consequence (কবুল জবাব); based on the defendant's admission of the plaintiff's claims (কবুল ডিক্রি); admitted; accepted; bound by promise. কবুল করা v. to confess; to admit, to acknowledge; to promise. কবুল হওয়া v. to be accepted; to be bound by promise. 19)

(p. 228) kāraṇa the instrument (of a work), a means; the body; any of the sense organs; cause, reason; motive, purpose; root; seed; the cause or agent or instrument (of an action); origin; wine (when consecrated or considered sacred). con. because, since, for, as. ̃জল, ̃বারি n. the water that existed everywhere before the creation of the universe; wine (when consecrated or considered holy). কারণ দর্শানো v. to show cause. n. a show-cause or a show-cause notice. ̃শরীর n. the body as conceived in the Vedanta. ̃সম্বন্ধ n. causal relation. কারণে adv. due to, owing to; with a view; for the purpose of. 14)

(p. 194) kaṇṭhābharaṇa an ornament for the throat; a necklace. 72)

(p. 239) kucikitsā bad or faulty medical treatment; medical quackery. 17)

(p. 232) kālāpāhāḍ় (hist.) a Brahmin who after embracing Islam was turned into a notorious iconoclast; (fig.) an awful religious renegade, a decrier of current beliefs, a turbulent heretic. কালাপাহাড়ি a. of or like an awful religious renegade or a decrier of current beliefs; heretical. n. iconoclasm; heresy. 9)

(p. 256) kōn̐kaḍ়ā curled, curling, curly, wavy. 5)

(p. 259) kōla2 the fold of the body of a person sitting, the lap (কোলে বসা); the flank of a person standing; the middle (মাছের কোল); flank or side or brink or middle (নদীর কোলে); foot, vicinity or neighbourhood (পাহাড়ের কোল); bosom, heart, the inside (সমুদ্রের কোল); an embrace (কোল দেওয়া). কোল জুড়ানো v. (of a child) to give delight to one (usu. the mother) who takes it up on one's lap. কোল দেওয়া v. to embrace; (fig.) to welcome or give shelter. কোলে ওঠা v. to climb up to one's lap or flank. কোলে করা same as কোলে তোলা । কোলে চড়া same as কোলে ওঠা । কোলে তোলা v. to take up in one's arms or to lift to one's flank; to take (up) one one's lap. কোলে বসা v. to sit upon one's lap. কোলে নেওয়া same as কোলে তোলা । কোলে-পিঠে করে মানুষ করা v. to bring up with care and affection (as by the mother or nurse). কোলের সন্তান one's youngest child; a suckling, an infant, a nursling. ̃আঁকড়া a. tied to the mother's apron-strings, too much attached to or dependent on mother. ̃কুঁজো a. stooping sideways. ̃জুড়ানো a. (of a child) causing delight to one (usu. the mother) who takes it on one's lap. কোলজুড়ানো সন্তান a darling child. ̃পোঁছা a. (of a child) last-born. ̃বালিশ n. a bolster. ̃মোছা same as কোলপোঁছা । 5)