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Kacliur — ^i>sro — Zedoaiy, the tubers of Curcuma 

 Zedoaeia. 



The long tubers are called nar-Jcachur, and the round ones 

 Tndda-kaclmr. 



Kadu — ^yS — a pumpkin, a gourd, the fruit of a 



Cucurbitaceous plant. 

 Kaf — kJiS — foam, froth. 

 Kaf-i-dar'id — '.j;^*-^^ — [The foam of the waters]. 



Cuttle-bone, the internal calcareous skeleton of 



Sepia species. 

 Kafila — AJLiLi* — a caravan. 

 Kcihl — ^o" — greenness, grassy. 

 Kdh-rewa, Jcdh-niha — Ij^'i — [siezer of straw]. 



Amber. 

 Kdh-wan [bush-straw], hdh-warg, koic-icarg, 



hd-warg [leaf-straw]. The Caper plant, Cap- 



PARIS SPIXOSA. 



Kdku — -yfc'i — Lettuce, Lactuca sativa. 



Kaimdg — Cream. 



Kajak — i*^ — any kiud of hook. 



Kajdh — a small, l)ut very troublesome horse-fl}^, 



Tachixa species. 

 Kajdoa — s^'-:sa^ — kadjaoa—a pannier made of wood, 



employed with camels, mules, or ponies. 

 Kdjlra — ^j-^V-^ — hdjura — -Safflower, Carthamus 



TIXCTOEIUS. 



Kdk — ^'S — anything dried, as meat, biscuit, bread ; 



the dried flesh of melons, CucuMis Melo. 

 Kdkn-ldg — [the Kakar-people]. A nomad tribe of 



merchants belonging to the vicinity of Herat. 

 Kdkutl — (^y^\^ — the herb Ziziphora texuior. 

 Kalak — ^iCU — a Cabul term for the fibre of cottoD, 



GOSSYPIUM herbaceum. 

 Kalam, or kcdm — ^'i — a pen, a graft, an annual 



shoot, a slijD. 

 Kalaml, or kalml — ^^<t^ — pen-like, applied technically 



