The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Kavi
Kavi [Vedic kavi] a poet S i.38; ii.267; D!vs i.10; four classes enumd at A ii.230 & DA i.95, viz. 1. cint!˚
an original p. 2. suta˚ one who puts into verse what he Las heard. 3. attha˚ a didactic p. 4. pa&ibh!*a˚ an
improvisor. -- kata composed by poets S ii.267; A i.72.
Kavya
Kavya [cp. Vedic kavya wise; sacrificer] poetry; ballad, ode (cp. kabba) J vi.213, 216. -- k!ra a poet J
vi.216.
Kavi&&ha
Kavi&&ha [cp. kapittha] the elephant -- apple tree, Feronia elephantum J v.38 (˚vana).
Kasaka
Kasaka see kassaka.
Kasa&a
Kasa&a (metathesis of saka&a, cp. Trenckner, Miln p. 423) 1. (adj.) bad, nasty; bitter, acrid; insipid,
disgusting A i.72; J ii.96; 159. -- 2. (m.) (a) fault, vice, defect M i.281; Ps ii.87. -- (b) leavings, dregs VvA
288 (v. l. saka&a). -- (c) something bitter or nasty J ii.96; v.18. -- (d) bitter juice J ii.105 (nimba˚). -- sa˚
faulty, wrong, bitter to eat, unpalatable Miln 119. -- ôdaka insipid, tasteless water J ii.97.
Kasati
Kasati [k%+ or kar+] to till, to plough S i.172, 173=Sn 80; Th i.531; J i.57; ii.165; vi.365. -- kassate (3rd
sing. med.) Th 1, 530. -- pp. kattha (q. v.) Caus. II. kas!peti Miln 66, 82; DhA i.224.
Kasana
Kasana (nt.) ploughing, tilling J iv.167; vi.328, 364; Vism 384 (+vapana sowing).
Kasambu
Kasambu [Derivation uncertain] anything worthless, rubbish, filth, impurity; fig. low passions S i.166; Sn
281=Miln 414=A iv.172; Vism 258 (ma'sa˚), 259 (parama˚). -- j!ta one whose nature is impurity, in comb.
brahmac!ripa&iñño antop(ti avassuto k˚ S iv.181; A ii.240; iv.128, 201; Vin ii.236; Pug 27, 34, 36; Vism 57
(+avassuta p!pa). ˚ka -- j!ta ibid. in vv. ll.
Kas!
Kas! (f.) [Vedic ka$!] a whip Vin i.99 (in Udd!na); M i.87, etc.; Dh 143; Miln 197. -- -- kas!hi t!)eti to
whip, lash, flog as punishment for malefactors here, as well as in Niraya (see kamma -- kara*!) M i.87=A
i.47= ii.122, etc.; PvA 4 (of a thief scourged on his way to the place of execution); DhA ii.39 (id.). --
nivi&&ha touched by the whip, whipped Dh 144 (=DhA iii.86); -- pah!ra a stroke with the whip, a lash J
iii.178; -- hata struck with the whip, scourged Vin i.75; 91=322; Sdhp 147.
Kas!ya