قينچي ḳainchī U s. f. 1. Scissors. 2. An oblique or St. Andrewʼs cross. قينچي کرنا ḳainchī kar- nā, To prune trees, or cut the hair. قينچي باندهنا ḳainchī bāndhnā, To bind or fasten an un- skilful rider on his horse. ک

قفا ḳafā A s. f. The back of the head, occiput, nape of the neck; behind, after.

قلعه ḳilʼaﻌ A (in Hind. but) properly ḳalʼaﻌ s. m. A fort. قلعه دار ḳilʼaﻌ-dār, Commandant of a garrison. قلعه داري ḳilʼaﻌ-dār-ī, s. f. The com- mand of a garrison.

قاصدي ḳaṣid-ī A. s. (dakh.) Travelling or going as courier or messenger.

قرينه ḳarīna A (from قرن) s. m. 1. Context, conjecture, similarity, analogy, symmetry, corre- spondence, connexion, regularity, order. 2. Cause.

قيامي ḳiyām-ī A. s. f. Stability, steadiness.

قوي ḳawī A adj. Strong, solid, powerful, vigo- rous. قوي پي ḳawī-pai, Sinewy. قوي دل ḳawī-dīl, Strong in the heart or mind. قوي هيکل ḳawī-haikal, Robust, powerful in body, gigantick.

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.

قابليت ḳābil-īyat A s. f. Possibility, skill, suf- ficiency, capacity, capability, ability, accom- plishment.

قرقي ḳurḳ-ī A adj. Confiscated. قرقي پروانه ḳurḳ-ī parwāna, A warrant issued to sequester a pro- perty.