(p. 194) kathaka a professional narrator of scriptural and mythological stories (usu. কথকঠাকুর); a speaker. ̃তা n. professional practice of narrating scriptural and mythological stories. 86)

(p. 234) kisē, kīsē (in Eng. adv.) from what; what for, why; by what or which; in which way or manner, how; by what or which means; in what or which. কীসে আর কীসে what a comparison to draw or make; comparing things opposed in character. 57)

(p. 208) karmisaṅgha trade union. 30)

(p. 202) kabi a poet; a scholar; a philosopher; a kind of song-tournament, this song (cp. strophe and antistrophe), its composer or singer. ̃ওয়ালা n. a composer of songs for a song-tournament; a singer of these songs; the leader of a party competing in a song-tournament. ̃কল্পনা n. a visionary thing; fanciful imagination; a baseless and unreal conception; (rare) poetic imagination. ̃কল্পিত a. visionary; fanciful; baseless and unreal; imagined or invented by a poet. ̃গান n. a kind of song-tournament or duel; a song for this tournament. ̃গুরু n. the first poet; the chief of poets. ̃জনোচিত a. befitting a poet, poetical. কবির লড়াই a kind of song-tournament; a contest of poets. কবিতা n. a poem; a verse; a couplet; poetry. কবিত্ব n. poetical imagination or talent, poetry; poetic quality. কবিত্বপূর্ণ, কবিত্বময় a. full of poetry; full of poetic quality; endowed with a talent for composing poems. কবিত্ব শক্তি n. poetical talent or genius. ̃প্রসিদ্ধি n. any imaginative description of nature originally made by a poet and afterwards repeated by other poets, a poetical convention. ̃বর n. a great poet, a master poet. কবি সম্মেলন n. an assembly or conference of poets. কবীশ n. the chief among poets. 15)

(p. 192) kacāt denoting: a sound like the one made in cutting off something at one stroke. 35)

(p. 251) kēn̐ḍ়ē (usu.) an earthen pail (for holding milk etc.). 30)

(p. 228) kārśya thinness; slimness; leanness. 48)

(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. 220) kāñci an ornament worn round the waist, a girdle, a sash (কাঞ্চিদাম). 9)

(p. 238) kun̐dana, kōn̐dana act of turning (a thing) on a lathe; act of carving; act of rushing forward to attack or beat; act of skipping or frisking; act of bragging. 5)

(p. 215) kāi glue; paste; starch. কাই কাই a. gluey; pasty; starchy. 17)

(p. 248) kūrmābatāra the second of the ten incarnations of Vishnu (বিষ্ণু) assuming the form of a tortoise. 32)

(p. 239) kuñcana curling; shrinking; wrinkling, shrivelling, wizening; contraction; curving, curvature; a curl; shrinkage; a wrinkling; a curve. 27)

(p. 257) kōdalānō to dig or to dig up with a spade. 11)

(p. 194) kaḍ়cā a chronicle, a biography, a narrative; an account book containing details of rent payable by tenants, a descriptive rent-roll. 41)