قيدي ḳaid-ī A. s. m. A prisoner, captive.

قحبه ḳaḥba A (from قحب To cough) 1. s. m. A cough. 2. An old woman (subject to coughing). 3. (the usual acceptation in Hindī) s. f. A whore, a prostitute (accustomed to notify her profession by coughing: Gol.). 4. adj. f. Unchaste.

قليه ḳaliya A (from قلا Heb. To roast or broil) s. m. The name of a dish; also, a kind of soap- ashes.

قبولي ḳabūl-ī A. s. f. A kind of food, rice and pulse boiled together.

قوميت ḳaum-īyat A. s. f. Connexion, being of the same tribe, &c.

قـﮩوه ḳahwa A s. m. Coffee. قـﮩوه دان ḳahwa-dān, A coffee-pot.

قلق ḳalaḳ A s. m. Disquietude, commotion, per- turbation, anxiety, trouble.

قدير ḳadīr A adj. Powerful; an attribute of the Deity, Almighty.

قيل ḳīl A (from قول Heb. ) s. m. A word, speech, saying. قيل وقال ḳīl-o-ḳāl, s. f. Con- versation, confabulation, controversy, altercation, babble, clack.

قيراط ḳīrāt̤ A (from قرط To divide into small parts. A seed of the Abrus precatorius, taken out of the pod, keration, is the weight in question) s. m. A carat, the twenty-fourth part of an ounce: four barley-corns: Alf.