قبل ḳabl A (Heb. and Chald. ) 1. s. m. The anteriour part, the front. 2. adj. First. 3. adv. Before. قبل ازين ḳabl az-īn, Before this, heretofore. ¶ ḳibal, 1. Power. 2. Plenty.

قولنج ḳūlinj G. or ḳūlanj, s. m. Colick.

قاف ḳāf A (from قوف To trace oneʼs footsteps, or rather Heb. and Chald. To revolve or go round) s. m. A fabulous mountain, supposed to surround the world, and bound the horizon. It rests on the stone Sakhrat, an entire emerald, which covers the azure colour of the sky. 2. Mount Caucasus.

قصد ḳaṣd A s. m. Intention, design, aim, object, desire, wish, inclination, purpose, project, at- tempt, conspiracy. قصد کرنا ḳaṣd karnā, To design, intend, project, propose to oneʼs self,

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

قلنج ḳulinj G. s. m. Colick. See قولنج.

قتال ḳitāl A (from قتل) s. f. Battle, slaughter, fighting. ¶ ḳattāl, adj. Great slayer, killer, murderer.

قابله ḳābila A s. f. A midwife.

قصيده ḳaṣīda A (from قصد) s. m. A poem, a long ode.

قسط ḳist̤ A s. f. 1. Portion. 2. Instalment. 3. Tax. قسطبندي ḳist̤-band-ī, s. f. Settlement of the revenues or taxes by instalment.