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Bharatavani

A Dictionary : Part-1 (Hindustani and English)

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ق
ḳāf, Called ḳāfi ḳarashat,
NA
the twenty-first letter of the Arabic alphabet, the twenty-fourth Persian, and twenty-seventh Hindūstānī : its sound is harder than that of kāf (the following letter), being. Formed deep in the throat, by the preseure of the root of the tongue against it, and has been compared to the cawing of a raven : in reckoning by abjad it stands for one hundred. "the people of Southern India generally sound this letter erroneously like kh ; the Persians confound it with gh, sounding either letter as ḳ or gh indiscriminately."-(Binning). a.
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قا
ḳā,
NA
the cawing of a rook or crow. ḳā-ḳā-k., the caw like a crow. A.

قاآن
ḳā-ān,
NA
a title among the Tartars, equivalent to Emperor or supreme ruler : it is sometimes applied to the emperor of China : it must not be confounded with the inferior title khān, as is generally done by our writers on Tartary, &c. p.

قاب
ḳāb,
f.
a large dish used for ---ding dough and other purposes ; m. a mesure length, viz. the distance from the middle to the extremities of a bow. ḳāb I ḳausain, two cubits' length. A.

قاب
ḳāb,
NA
the case of a watch. D.

قابض
ḳābiẓ,
m.
seizing, taking ; an astringent ; a receiver, possesser ; occupant. ḳābiẓu-l-arwāḥ, the seizer of souls, the angel of death. A.

قابل
ḳābil,
NA
possible, capable, skilful, sufficient, able, worthy, clever. A.

قابلہ
ḳābila,
f.
a skilful woman, a midwife. A.

قابلی قابلیت
ḳābilī, ḳābilīyat,
f.
possibility, skill, sufficiency capability, fitness. A.

قابو
ḳābū,
m.
power, command, authority, opprotunity, possession, will. ḳābū-pānā, to get the opportunity. ḳābū-parast, tyrannical. ḳābū-parastī, f. tyranny. ḳābū-chalānā, a. to exercise one's power. T.


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