The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Kibbisaka=kibbisa Sdhp 290.
Kimi
Kimi m. [Vedic k%mi] a worm, vermin: set! kim" ka*ha- s"s! A iii.241; Miln 272; DA i.199; -- As animal of
death and putrefaction M i.507; J i.146; Sn 201; esp. with ref. to the punishment of Petas: Pv i.31; Th 2,
439; PvA 192; Sdhp 603. As glow -- worm M ii.34; 41 (with khajjopanaka); s!laka˚ a very minute insect
Miln 312. In similes: Th 1, 1175 (kim" va m"lhasallitto); Vism 500, 598. In cpd. kimi -- kula the worm kind
(genus worm) Miln 100; Vism 235; ˚ga*a crowd of worms Vism 314.
Kimina
Kimina (adj.) [from kimi] covered with worms J v.270.
Kira
Kira (& Kila) [Vedic kila] adv. 1. emphatic: really, truly, surely. (Gr. dh/) -- 2. presumptive (with pres. or
fut.): I should think one would expect. -- 3. narrative (with aor.): now, then, you know (Gr. de\, Lat. at, G.
aber). kira in continuous story is what "iti" is in direct or indirect speech. It connects new points in a
narrative with something preceding, either as expected or guessed. It is aoristic in character (cp. Sk. sma).
In questions it is dubitative, while in ordinary statements it gives the appearance of probability, rather than
certainty, to the sentence. Therefore the definitions of commentators: "people say" or "I have heard":
kirasaddo anussavane: "kira refers to a report by hearsay" PvA 103; kira -- saddo anussav'atthe J i.158;
VvA 322 are conventional and one -- sided, and in both cases do not give the meaning required at the
specified passages. The same holds good for J i.158 & ii.430 (kir! ti anussavatthe nip!to). -- 1. mahanta'
kira B!r!*asirajja' "the kingdom of B. is truly great" J i.126; att! hi kira duddamo "self is difficult to
subdue, we know" Dh 159; amogha' kira me pu&&ha' Sn 356. -- na kira surely not Sn 840; J i.158. -- 2. es!
kira Vis!kh! n!ma "that I presume is the Vis!kh!" (of whom we have heard) DhA i.399; pet! hi kira j!nanti
"the petas, I should say, will know" Pv ii.710; eva' kira Uttare? "I suppose this is so, Uttar!" VvA 69. eva'
kira sagga' gamissatha "thus you will surely go to Heaven" Vv 828; "I hear" DhA i.392. -- 3. at"te kira with
aor. once upon a time . . . PvA 46, etc.; so kira pubbe . . . ak!si, at one time, you know, he had made . . . J
i.125; s! kira d!s" ad!si now the maid gave her . . . PvA 46; cp. J i.195, etc.
Kira*a
Kira*a (nt.) 1. [fr. k%, karoti to do] an occupation, place of work, workshop J iv.223. Cp. kita & kittima.
2. [fr. k%, kirati to scatter, cp. pp. ki**a] scattering, effusion (of sun rays), effulgence VvA 169, 199.
Kirati
Kirati [k"r] to scatter, strew; not found in simples, only in cpds. apa˚, abbhuk˚, abhi˚, ava˚ (o˚), pari˚, vi˚.
See also pp., ki**a2.
Kir!ta
Kir!ta (& kir!&a) [prob. dial.] a man of a tribe of jungle- men, classed with dwarfs among the attendants of
a chief DA i.148. See on the Kir!ta as a mountain tribe Zimmer, Altindisches Leben p. 34. Cp. also
apakirit(na & okirati2, okira*a. -- A secondary meaning of kir!&a is that of a fraudulent merchant, a cheat
(see kir!sa & ker!&ika).
Kir!sa
Kir!sa (adj.) [a by -- form of kir!&a] false, fraudulent J iv.223 (=ker!&ika).