قسم ḳism A s. f. 1. Kind, species, sort. 2. Part, division. ¶ ḳasam, s. f. An oath. قسم دلانا ḳasam dilānā, To administer an oath. قسم دينا ḳasam denā, To adjure. قسم کهـانا ḳasam khānā. To take an oath, to swear. ¶ ḳasm, s. Di- viding, parting.

قدس ḳuds A (Heb. ) 1. s. m. Holiness, sanctity. 2. Jerusalem. 3. The angel Gabriel. 4. adj. Holy, pure.

قربان ḳurbān A (from قرب q. d. approaching, pecul. to God. ) s. m. 1. A sacrifice, victim, offering, oblation (*karpwma). 2. A quiver. قربان کرنا ḳurbān karnā, To sacrifice, to devote. قربان گاه ḳurbān-gāh, s. f. An altar. قربان هونا ḳur- bān honā, To be sacrificed or devoted.

قرق ḳurḳ A s. m. 1. An embargo. 2. Confisca- tion, the act of seizing, attacking, seizure. 3. Enclosure, hinderance, prevention of access.

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

قا فيه ḳāfiya A (from قفا To follow) s. m. Rhyme, cadence, metre, the last letter in a verse, to which all the other distichs rhyme. (In poems which terminate in a double rhyme, the penult syllable is ḳāfiya, the last being called radīf). قافيه تنگ هونا ḳāfiya tang honā, To be very poor or distressed.

قادر ḳādir A (part. act. of قدر) adj. Potent, pow- erful, mighty, capable, skilful. القادر al-ḳādir, The Almighty.

قنوت ḳunūt A (from قنت To be obedient to God) s. f. Devotion, piety.

قلمقاني ḳilmaḳānī H s. f. A female armed atten- dant on a lady (perhaps a Calmuck).

قريبه ḳarīb-a A adj. fem. of قريب ḳarīb, q. v.