'A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations' [‎663v] (1331/1826)

p {L£ kayfa, A bloody wound. G reat trouble, care, anxiety.
p klfal) A scoundrel. Fond of wine and women.
p ktfumdariy To incline. To administer justice.
A tjJi kifut, A section, a segment, a patch,
p klftan^ To do justice. To incline to.
p kayfar^ Return for good or evil, a repayment, reward,
exchange. A thirst for revenge. Repentance. A river. A
vessel of a peculiar form, in which sour coagulated milk is pre
pared. Calamity, affliction, injury, oppression. Joining two
extremities. Kayfur or klfar, A stone placed on the battlements
of a fortress.
p kayfasdm, The keeping of a secret.
A kayfama. In whatever manner, in whatsoever way.
p kayfuty Connivance, lenity,
p teS kayfahy The palm of the hand.
a kayftj Intoxicated.
A kayfiyaty Quality, mode, story, statement, account,
relation, state, circumstances. Hilarity, mirth from drinking.
j+s-*- 3 kayftyat-i ^rts/c/i7r,The manner of attack.
kayftyat-i rasikhah, A fixed, permanent quality.
<U^lc kayflyat-i ^uriztyahy A moveable or accidental quality.
p Kaykubady A great king. .Name of a king of Iran.
p kayky A flea. kayk dar puchuhy
^ nr pdzah or^yLijJ dar shalicar) afkandan^ To throw
a flea into (another’s) trowsers, (met.) To disturb, disquiet, ren
der fidgety. Kiky A man. The pupil of the eye. Kiyaky A
kind of truit. A cat. An ash-coloured horse.
kayka-u. Worthless, good for nothing.
p kay-kdwusy Just, noble. Name of a king of Persia.
kaykat (or kayktyat). An egg.
p kaykaj (or kaykir)j Water-cress. Kaykijy Seed
of water-cresses.
v kikin or ktkan, Darkness. Solder.
p J^r^ kikliy A lake, a pond, a ditch,
p kaykzcush (or <l£>^C£), Camomile; fleavvort.
p klkijy Seed of water-cresses or of nettles.
T jir^ kayklr also klkir, kayktsh also kiklsh). The
herb rocket.
p kaygany The interior of the womb.
A kuyl (from Measuring (grain). Weighing (mo-
ney). Computing or measuring (one thing by another). Failing
(as a flint and steel to strike fire). A measure of grain, also of
other dry goods and liquids. Heat, also cold, with certain modi
fications of both. Sparks struck with flint and steel.
P (J“ ktly Crooked. Anxious, longing. Dressed in a warm
blanket. Kiyaly Name of a fruit; the plantane-fruit. A medlar.
piL£ kayldy Name of a medicine.
A kayldy Lest, that not.
p kllds, Meal, flour.
p JL£ kayldn, A heron. The summit of a mountain. An i n .
dolent swelling; a dry humour. Swelled testicles. Blear-eyed.
A <LL£ kaylaty Measure, dimension. Kilaty Any thing mea-
sured. The mode of measuring.
A <Ls^ klljaty A corn measure of 3 lb. 3 qrs.
p ktlaky A medlar.
p kllakuny A certain black medicinal wood found on
the shores of the Caspian. A sort of leek.
p ktldy A royal mandate. A pond, a ditch. Large earth
en pipes, used as aqueducts. A place on the bank of a river or
other piece of water, where the Muhammadans ease and purify
themselves before performing their religious ablutions. A place
where they watch (before prayer). Kiyaldy A medlar.
p KtlzoaSy Name of a city the birth-place of the re
puted Hindu saint Shdkmuni. (liurhdn-i kiiti^.)
g kayluty (Xuhbf) Chyle,
p ktlahy A measure of corn.
A UJ’ kayrndy Why ? In order to.
plL/U«£ kimuk zho kayrndk, A sort of surcingle with which
they secure the burthens of asses and camels. Name of a city in
Tartary, and of a river. Cream,
p kayrnul, A weasel.
p <— ktmkhaby Brocaded silk.
p klmukhty The back-leather of a horse or of an ass,
shagreen. Undressed leather. A wrinkled skin. tV*
kimukht-i mahy The sky.
p ktmukhliy Made of klmukht.
P kimkh'ab (for kii/ikhub)y Silk worked
with gold or silver flowers. Brocade.
a kaymuhy Honoured.
g kaymus (Xv/ubf), Humour.
v kimunistany (in anc. Pers.) To request, beg, ask.
p ktmahy The excrement of the eye or ear. A sorry
horse. Livid eyes.
pa ktmyiiy Fraud, deceit, art. A rogue. Chemistry, al-
chymy; the philosopher’s stone. Lead. Love. A lover. Saga
cious; an instructor, a guide. This word is supposed to be de
rived from the Greek Xw/aoj, which signifies juice, or humour,
and therefore it is confined properly to the extraction ot the es
sences ot plants. It is however extended also to preparations
from minerals or metals; but in this more enlarged sense they
join it in general with s simyd (from |*l~» sdtny veins of gold
or silver), • j klmyd o simyd implying all the chemi
cal operations performed by fire on animal, vegetable, or mineral
substances. The Arabians had, however, another art called
simyd (from sim or ism), which was a species of
geoinancy or divination, employed by them in making talismans
or charms, and in the invocation of spirits; for which purpose, in