خوشبو ḵẖụsh-bo P 1. adj. Sweet-smelling, fra- grant, odoriferous. 2. s. f. Perfume, odour. خوشبودار ḵẖụsh-bo-dār, adj. Aromatick, odori- ferous, fragrant.

خرد ḵẖirad A s. f. Wisdom, intellect. خرد پسند ḵẖirad-pasand, Approved by the understanding. خرد مند ḵẖirad-mand, adj. Wise. خرد مندي ḵẖirad-mand-ī, s. f. Wisdom. خردور ḵẖirad- war, adj. Sagacious, wise. حردوري ḵẖiradwar-ī, s. f. Sagacity, wisdom.

خالصه ḵẖāliṣ-a A 1. adj. Pure. 2. s. m. An office of government in which the business of the revenue department is transacted; exche- quer. 3. Land held immediately from govern- ment.

خناس ḵẖannās A (from خنس To abscond, to retire; to backbite, to calumniate: because, says Jauharī, he flees when God is named: perhaps rather, like *diabolos, The accuser) s. m. 1. The devil. 2. (met.) A wicked person.

خصي ḵẖaṣī A s. m. A castrated animal (par- ticularly a goat), an eunuch. خصي کرنا ḵẖaṣī karnā, To geld, castrate.

خشک ḵẖushk P adj. Dry, withered. (Sans. शुष्क). خشک دماغ ḵẖushk-damāg̠ẖ, adj. Grieved. خشک دماغي ḵẖushk-damāg̠ẖ-ī, s. f. Grief. خشک سال ḵẖushk-sāl, A general dearth, a dry year, a drought. خشک سالي ḵẖushk- sāl-ī, s. f. Drought, sterility. خشک لب ḵẖushk-lab, adj. Dry in the lips or in the shore. خشک لبي ḵẖushk-lab-i, s. f. Dryness of the lips. خشک مغز ḵẖushk-mag̠ẖz, adj. Crack-brained, crazy, hotbrained, hotheaded. خشک مغزي ḵẖushk-mag̠ẖz-ī, s. f. Hotheadedness, madness, craziness.

خيال ḵẖayāl A improp. ḵẖiyāl (from خال) s. m. 1. Imagination, fancy, thought, idea, considera- tion, apprehension, conceit, suspicion, opinion, notion. 2. Phantom, delusion, vision. 3. A kind of song. خيال باطل ḵẖayāl-i-bāt̤il, Foolish imagination. خيال پرست ḵẖayāl-parast, adj. Fanciful, visionary, castle-builder. خيال پڙنا ḵẖayāl paṛnā, To pursue an object. خيال پلاوپکانا ḵẖayāl pulāʼo pakānā, To indulge in vain speculations or absurd fancies, to build castles in the air. خيال چهوڙنا ḵẖayāl chhoṛnā, To be out of conceit with. خيال خلافت ḵẖayāl-i-ḵẖi- lāfat, Ambition, خيال خام ḵẖayāl-i-ḵẖām, A

خلل ḵẖalal A (from خلّ) s. m. Interruption, dis- turbance, confusion, prejudice, damage, injury, defect, ruin, hiatus, breach. خلل دماغ ḵẖalal-i-dimāg̠ẖ, s. m. (lit. Injury of the brain) Madness, melancholy, craziness. adj. Mad, hare- brained, hotheaded, brainsick, confused. A. P. خللي ḵẖalal-ī, adj. Interrupter, disturber, mischief-maker.

خشکه ḵẖushk-a P s. m. Boiled rice.

خاکدان ḵẖāk-dān P s. A receptacle or pit for dust, earth, ashes, &c.; (met.) the world.