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भारतवाणी
bharatavani  
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Knowledge through Indian Languages
Bharatavani

A Dictionary : Part-1 (Hindustani and English)

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قاع
ḳā',
NA
a plain, a desert ; level ground. ḳā'i basīṭ, the vast desert. A.

قاعدہ
ḳā'ida,
m.
basis, groundwork ; rule, custom, institution ; the rules of grammar. S.

قاف
ḳāf,
m.
or kohi ḳāf, the mountain of ḳāf, supposed to surround the world, and bound the extreme horizon : it rests on the stone ṣakhrat, an entire emerald, the reflection from which occasions the azure colour of the sky, according to the poets : the kohi ḳāf is the abode of the devs and jinn (or genii), and also of the parīs or fairies ; the famous sīmurgh, or great griffin, is also an inhabitant of the same interesting region. a.

قافلہ
ḳāfila,
m.
a body of travellers, a caravan. ḳāfila-bāshī or ḳāfila-sālār, m. the leader or chief of a caravan. It may be observed that the term bāshī is Turkish, and denotes chief, head, as ar-bāshī, chief of the troops, &c., ḳāfila-bāshī, therefore, does not dente the abstract feminine noun, viz. "chieftainship of a caravan," as we have seen it stated in some dictionary. a.
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قافیہ
ḳāfiya,
m.
rhyme, cadence, metre, the last letter in a verse, to which all the other distichs rhyme : in poems which terminate in a double rhyme, the penult syllable is ḳāfiya, the last being called radīf. ḳāfiya tang honā, to be very poor or distressed. A.

قاق
ḳāḳ,
NA
dry, lean, thin, feeble ; disproportionately tall. A.

قاقا
ḳā-ḳā,
NA
the note of a crow ; an imitative sound, like our word cuckoo. A.

قاقلہ
ḳāḳula,
m.
cardamoms. A.

قاقم
ḳāḳum,
m.
a fine kind of ermine. A.

قال
ḳāl,
m.
a word, a saying ; loquaciousness ; boasting, egotism. ḳāl mārnā, to be very loquacious ; to rebuke, to reproach. ḳāl maḳāl, m. altereation, wrangling. ḳāla-llāhu ta'ālā, "God the Most High hath said," a phrase generally prefixed to quotations from the ḳur,ān. a.
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