قاضي ḳāẓī A (part. act. of قضا) s. m. A judge, a justice.

قانت ḳānit A (part. act. of قنوت) adj. 1. Obe- dient to God, devout. 2. Silent.

قياقه ḳiyāfa A (from قوف) s. m. Appearance, countenance, mien, likeness, air, manner, mode, representation.

قاقم ḳāḳum A s. m. A fine kind of ermine.

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.

قسر ḳasr A s. m. Violence, compulsion, retalia- tion, revenge.

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.

قايد ḳāʼịd A (part. act. of قود) s. m. 1. A leader, a general. 2. The star in the tail of the lesser bear.

قرطاس ḳirt̤ās G. (Gr. xa/rths, Lat. charta) s. m. Paper.

قاسم ḳāsim A part. act. (of قسم) 1. Dividing. 2. (sub.) A distributer. قاسم الارزاق ḳāsimu-l-arzāḳ, Distributer of daily bread, i. e. God.