called kāf-i-'ajamī (the Persian kāf, it being unknown in the Arabic). The twenty-sixth letter of the Persian alphabet, and the twenty-ninth Hindūstānī. Its sound is that of g hard, as in the words go, give, never like that of g in the words gem, gentle. in reckoning by abjad it counts 20, the same as kāf (the preceding letter). the Arabs sometimes substitute jīm for gāf, as lajām for lagām, a bridle. The people of India, on the other hand, often substitute gāf for ghain, as kāgaẕ or kāgaj for kāghaẕ, paper. p. h.
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ग
Ga,
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is the corresponding letter in the Devanāgarī alphabet. As a termination, in Sanskrit words, it denotes motion, as bhujang, a serpent, (lit.) what goes in a curve, or, as the Americans would say, "a spiralizer." s. h.
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گاب
गाब
Gāb,
m.
name of a tree, the fruit of which contains a glutinous astringent juice, with which the bottoms of boats are smeared, and in which nets are soaked (Diospyros glutinosa, Ken. MS ; Embryopteris glutinfera, Roxb. Pl. Cor. 70). H.
گابھہ
गाभ
Gābh,
m.
pregnancy ; (in Dakh) gāb. S.
گابھا
गाभा
Gābhā,
m.
a new leaf springing from the centre of a plantain-tree ; (in Dakh.) gābā. S.