قاتل ḳātil A part. act. (of قتل) 1. Killing. 2. s. m. A murderer, assassin. 3. Homicide. 4. adj. Mortal, deadly, fatal.

قساوت ḳasāwat A (from قسا Heb. To be hard) s. f. Hardness of heart, grief, anguish, pain, chagrin.

قيمتي ḳīmat-ī A. adj. Valuable, high-priced.

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.

قراول ḳarāwal T s. m. f. 1. The advanced guard of an army. 2. A sentinel, a piquet. 3. A gamekeeper.

قلزم ḳulzum A s. m. 1. A sea. 2. n. prop. The red sea. A.P. قلعچه ḳilʼaﻌ-cha (dimin. of قلعه) s. m. A re- doubt.

قلم ḳalam A s. m. (by Hindūs s. f. Sans. कलम Gr. ka/lamos) 1. A reed. 2. A pen. 3. A mode of writing characters, handwriting. 4. s. f. Cuttings of trees, &c. for planting, a set, a slip. 5. A kind of firework. قلم انداز ḳalam- andāz, Throwing away the pen. قلم بند کرنا ḳalam band karnā, To take down, to write. قلم بندي ḳalam-band-ī, s. f. Signature, signing an agreement. قلم تراش ḳalam-tarāsh, s. f. A penknife. قلم جاري هونا ḳalam jārī honā, Le- vying of forces. قلمدان ḳalam-dām, s. m. An inkstand. قلمرو ḳalam-rau, s. m. Empire, sove- reignty, jurisdiction. قلم کار ḳalam-kār, An en- graver. قلم کاري ḳalam-kār-ī, s. f. Engraving. قلم کرنا ḳalam karnā, To cut. قلم کشي ḳalam- kash-ī, s. f. Writing. قلم لگانا ḳalam lagānā, To plant slips or cuttings.

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

قوال ḳauwāl A (adj. superl. of قول) 1. s. m. A kind of musician, a singer. 2. adj. Speaking.

قبيله ḳabīla A s. m. 1. A family, a tribe. 2. A wife.