(p. 219) kāja work, action; a deed, an act; a job, an employment, a service (কাজ থেকে বরখাস্ত); occupation, profession, trade; duty, task (রাজার কাজ প্রজাপালন); practice, habit (আড্ডা দেওয়াই তার কাজ); need, necessity, use (কথায় কাজ কী); motive, business (কী কাজে এসেছ); outcome, result, good result, success (ওষুধে কাজ হয়েছে); artistry (ছবিতে রঙের কাজ). কাজ আদায় করা v. to see that one works properly, to make one work properly; to get a work or task done; to wheedle a thing out of another, to wangle (by persuasion, trickery etc.). কাজও নেই কামাইও নেই always busy with nothing, ever busy with nothing; ever busy with trifles or with useless work; fussy. কাজ করা v. to work; to serve; to be effective. কাজ চলা, কাজ চলে যাওয়া v. & n. to be worth working, to be workable; to do (এতে তোমার কাজ চলবে ?? will it do?). কাজ দেওয়া v. to give employment; to entrust with a work or job, to allocate or allot duties to; to be effective (ওষুধটায় কাজ দিয়েছে); to give service (ঘড়িটা ভাল কাজ দিচ্ছে). কাজ দেখা v. to examine a work done; to supervise a work; to look for an employment or job; (coll.) to be effective (এতে কাজ দেখবে). কাজ দেখানো v. to try to display ostentatiously that one is busy, to be fussily active; to show off; to prove one's worth through work. কাজ বাগানো v. to manage to achieve one's end, to manage to obtain. কাজ বাঁচানো v. to see that one does not lose one's job. কাজ বাজানো v. (usu. dero.—by an insincere worker) to be on duty neglectfully. কাজ হাসিল করা v. to have one's object fulfilled; to have one's object achieved. কাজের কথা useful talk; the main point of a talk; talk about work. কাজের কাজি the right man for a work. কাজের জিনিস useful or valuable thing. কাজের বার useless, out of order; worthless; disabled. কাজের বেলায় কাজি কাজ ফুরোলে পাজি (fig.) ingratitude is the law of the world. কাজের লোক n. an employee; a servant, an active or useful or competent person. 12)

(p. 232) kāśi cough; expectoration of mucus by coughing. 40)

(p. 257) kōḍ়ā a whip, a scourge, a lash. 5)

(p. 232) kālōẏāta a man proficient in Indian classical music. কালোয়াতি n. proficiency in the Indian classical music; (sarcas.) act of parading one's superior knowledge or skill in classical music. কালোয়াতি করা v. (sarcas.) to parade one's superior knowledge or skill in anything. কালোয়াতি a. pertaining to Indian classical music or musicians. 35)

(p. 217) kākṣika intrapetiolar. 29)

(p. 226) kāẏasha a caste amongst the Hindus; one belonging to this caste. fem. কায়স্হা, (অশু.) কায়স্হিনী a woman or a girl of the Kayastha (কায়স্হ) caste; a wife of a Kayastha.

(p. 202) kabirapanhī of the religious order established by Kabir. n. one belonging to this order. 16)

(p. 194) kanakānaṭē a dark-red variety of edible spinach, the golden spinach. 115)

(p. 257) kōtōẏāla a policeman; a constable; the chief of a police station; a police chief. কোতোয়ালি n. a police station; the profession of a policeman or a constable or that of the chief of a police station or a police chief. 8)

(p. 239) kuñja2 decorative embroidery in the borders of a sari (শাড়ি), shawl etc. ̃দার a. embroidered.

(p. 234) ki (used as an auxiliary interrogative word. (তুমি কি যাবে ? = will you go ?); whether (কি বালক কি বৃদ্ধ). 3)

(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. 208) karmāntara another work or job; change of work or job. 25)

(p. 206) karāẏatta gripped, grasped; taken firm hold or possession of; brought under one's control or power; usurped; learned thoroughly. 10)

(p. 261) kyāmbisa canvas. 26)