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কান্তি [ kānti ] n grace; charm; beauty; splendour; brightness; radiance. কান্তিক, ̃লোহা same as কান্তলোহা । ̃বিদ্যা n. aesthetics. ̃মান a. graceful; charming; beautiful; splendid; bright; radiant. fem. ̃মতী ।

কান্না [ kānnā ] n act or a spell of weeping. ̃কাটি n. effusive weeping, blubbering; continu ous weeping; lamentation; (fig.) ear nest request; solicitation. কান্নাকাটি করা v. to weep effusively, to blubber, to blub; to weep continuously; to lament; to request earnestly; to solicit; to pester with earnest request or solicitation. কান্না-হাসি n. sorrow and joy, tears and smiles.

কাপ1 [ kāpa1 ] n a cup.

কাপ2 [ kāpa2 ] n one of a section of the Brah mans (ব্রাহ্মণ); dissimulation, pretence, feigning. ☐ a. dissimulating, disguised; pretending, feigning; hypocritical; funny, mirth-provoking. কাপ করা v. to pretend, to feign.

কাপটিক [ kāpaṭika ] a deceitful, fraudulent; hypo critical; sly.

কাপট্য [ kāpaṭya ] n chicanery; trickishness; deceit; deception; act of feigning, pretence, make-believe; hypocrisy; insincerity; dissimulation.

কাপড় [ kāpaḍ় ] n cloth-fabric; loincloth; dress, garment. কাপড় ছাড়া v. to change the loincloth, to change; to undress. কাপড় পরা v. to put on clothes or the loin cloth; to dress. কাপড়-চোপড় n. pl. clothes, garments, wearing apparel; dress. কাপড়-চোপড় ছাড়া v. to undress; to change. কাপড়-চোপড় পরা v. to dress, কাপড়ের দোকান a cloth-shop; a clothier's shop; a textile-shop.

কাপালিক [ kāpālika ] n an ascetic worshipping the cult of Kali or Shiva using the human skull for drinking and sitting on human skulls.

কাপাস [ kāpāsa ] n cotton. কাপাস গাছ n. the cotton-plant. See also কার্পাস ।

কাপুড়ে, কাপুড়িয়া [ kāpuḍ়ē, kāpuḍ়iẏā ] a of cloth; made of cloth; dealing in cloth. ☐ n. a cloth merchant; a clothier or a cloth-dealer.

কাপুরুষ [ kāpuruṣa ] n a coward, a poltroon; a faint-hearted or hen-hearted person. ☐ a. cowardly, poltroon; faint-hearted, hen hearted. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. cowardice; cowardliness; faint-heartedness. কাপুরুষোচিত a. cowardly, befitting a coward or a chicken-hearted person.

কাপে-কাপে [ kāpē-kāpē ] adv to a nicety; exactly; to a T.

কাপ্তেন, কাপ্তান [ kāptēna, kāptāna ] n the captain of a ship; a military officer holding the rank of a captain; a leader or captain of a team of players or sportsmen; a captain; (sl.) a fop who spends money prodigally in order to play the boss amongst his companions in vulgar amusements. কাপ্তানি n. captaincy; captainship; (sl.) act of spending money foppishly and prodigally in order to play the boss amongst one's companions in vulgar amusements. কাপ্তানি করা v. to captain; to lead; (sl.) to spend money foppishly and prodigally in order to play the boss amongst one's companions in vulgar amusements.

কাফন [ kāphana ] n a winding-sheet, a shroud.

কাফরি [ kāphari ] n an African negro; an African.

কাফি [ kāphi ] n an Indian musical mode.

কাফির, কাফের [ kāphira, kāphēra ] n a Kafir; an infidel (ac cording to Muslims).

কাফিল, কাফেলা [ kāphila, kāphēlā ] n a company of pilgrims travelling together; a company travel ling together, a caravan.

কাবা [ kābā ] n a kind of a very long and loose fitting shirt; a quadrangular mosque in Mecca where Muslim Haj pilgrims gather to say their prayers before the holy Black Stone.

কাবাড়ি [ kābāḍ়i ] n persons who buy in an auction mart for resale; a class of fishermen.

কাবাব [ kābāba ] n roasted meat.

কাবাবচিনি [ kābābacini ] n cubeb.

কাবার [ kābāra ] n end, termination, winding-up (দিন কাবার, কাজ কাবার); the last day (মাসকাবার). কাবার করা v. to finish; to complete; to wind up; to spend; to do to death, to do in. কাবার হওয়া v. to end, to terminate, to be over; to be finished; to be spent.