(p. 220) kāṭabya (chiefly used as a correl. of কটু) harshness, rudeness. 22)

(p. 203) kabyabāha fire believed to carry the food offered to deceased ancestors. 2)

(p. 194) kandarpa the name of Hindu love god (cp. Cupid, Eros). 128)

(p. 238) kukhādya uneatable or forbidden food; food that is not fit for human consumption. 18)

(p. 248) kuharaṇa act of cooing; the note of a cuckoo. 17)

(p. 253) kēmana how, of or in what sort or manner. a. of a sort (কেমন বোকের মতো); anxious, perturbed (মন কেমন করা); excellent, fine (কেমন মজা). কেমন করে how. কেমন-কেমন a. suspicious; (of health or mind) inexplicable; dubious; doubtful. কেমন-কেমন করা v. not to feel well or all right, to feel sick (শরীর কেমন-কেমন করা); to be in an alarming or dying condition (রোগী কেমন-কেমন করছে); to become anxious or perturbed (মন কেমন-কেমন করছে). কেমনকেমন ঠেকা v. to appear as suspicious or dubious or doubtful; to smell of something sinister. ̃তরো a. peculiar; of what sort. কেমন যেন a. not appearing to be quite well; suspicious, dubious, doubtful; to some extent, somewhat. কেমনে (poet.) adv. how. 25)

(p. 231) kāla pūrṇa having one's span of life or existence completed. কাল পূর্ণ হয়েছে one's time is up, one's days are numbered, one has not long to live. 9)

(p. 226) kāmadāni embroidery; an embroidered piece of cloth. 12)

(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. 194) kathita uttered, pronounced; said, told; narrated, described; mentioned, spoken of কথিত আছে যে it is said that. 91)

(p. 257) kōẏāsiẏā, kōẏāśiẏā quassia. 27)

(p. 194) kajjalī mercurous sulphate (as used in medicine). 3)

(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. 226) kābuli of Kabul or Afghanistan. n. a native of Kabul or Afghanistan, an Afghan. ̃ওয়ালা n. same as কাবুলি (n.). 5)

(p. 192) kaṅka, kān̐ka the heron. 22)