آتش خوار ātash-ḵẖẉār P (Fire eater) s. m. Name of a bird, a variety of Tetrao rufus, Lin: called in Hindī چکور chakor, q. v.

بازخواست bāz-ḵẖẉāst P s. f. Reiterated inqui- ry, minute in- vestigation or examination.

خواب ḵẖẉāb P s. m. f. 1. Sleep. 2. A dream. 3. Nap (of cloth). خواب آلوده ḵẖẉāb-ālūda, adj. Sleepy. خواب خيال ḵẖẉāb-ḵẖiyāl, s. m. Spectre, phantom, delusion. خواب ديکهنا ḵẖẉāb dekhnā, To dream. خوابگاه ḵẖẉāb-gāh, Sleeping-apartment, bed-room, dormitory. خواب ناک ḵẖẉāb-nāk, adj. Sleepy, drowsy.

خوابيده ḵẖẉābīda P (from خوابيدن) part. Sleeping, asleep.

خواجه ḵẖẉāja P s. m. A man of distinction, a rich merchant, a gentleman, a governour. خواجه خضر ḵẖẉāja ḵẖiẓr, n. prop. The name of a prophet skilled in divination, and who is said to have discovered the water of life; hence, he is considered as the saint of waters. The Mu- hammadans offer to him oblations of lamps, flowers, &c. placed on little rafts and launched on the river, particularly on Thursday evening in the month of bhādoṅ: and, it is in his ho- nour that the feast of the beṛa, q. v. is held. خواجه زاده ḵẖẉāja-zāda, s. m. Master. خواجه سرا ḵẖẉāja-sarā, s. m. An eunuch.

خوار ḵẖẉār P 1. adj. Poor, distressed, deserted, abandoned, friendless, wretched, contemptible, abject, ruined. 2. part. act. (from خواردن) in compos. Eating, devouring, eater, drinking, drinker; suffering, sufferer.

خوارج ḵẖawārij A s. plur. of خارجي ḵẖārijī, q. v.

خوارق ḵẖawāriḳ A s. plur. of (خرق or خارق) Contrary to nature, unusual things, miracles.

خواري ḵẖẉār-ī P 1. s. f. Baseness, meanness, contemptibleness, vileness, abjectness, distress. 2. in compos. Eating, drinking; suffering.

خواست ḵẖẉāst P (from خواستن) s. f. Desire, wish, request. خواستگار ḵẖẉāst-gār, s. m. Can- didate, competitor, bidder. خواستگاري ḵẖẉāst- gār-ī, s. f. Competition, candidateship, desire.

خواسته ḵẖẉāsta P (from خواستن) part. pass. De- sired, wished for, having willed or wished.

خواص ḵẖawāṣṣ A s. plur. (of خاصّ or خاصّه) 1. Attendants, domesticks. 2. Grandees, ministers of state, people of quality or distinct from the vulgar, gentry. 3. Properties, qualities, attri- butes. 4. A page or a female attendant on the great. 5. A favourite. خواص وعوام ḵẖawāṣṣ o aﻌwāmm, Nobles and plebeians.

خواصي ḵẖawāṣṣ-ī A. s. m. The place where one sits behind a great man upon an elephant.

درخواست darḵẖẉāst P (from درخواستن To wish, petition) s. f. Application, request, entreaty, proposal, desire, wish, demand, petition, appeal, or petition of appeal. درخواست کرنا darḵẖẉāst karnā, To beseech, request, entreat, require, beg, seek, propose.

سنگخواره sang-ḵẖẉāra P s. A kind of bird, a smallish bird of a dark colour, called in Arabic قطاة ḳat̤āt (?).