The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

danta as Np. should prob. belong here, thus meaning "ox -- tooth" (derisively) (D i.127; Vism 208), with
which may be compared danta -- k(&a (see under danta).
K(&eyya
K(&eyya (nt.) [der. fr. *k(&ya of k(&a1, cp. in formation s!&heyya] fraud, deceit, in combn with s!&heyya &
vankeyya M i.340; A v.167.
K(pa
K(pa (m.) [Vedic k(pa, orig. curvature viz. (a) interior= cavity, cp. Lat. cupa, Gr. ku/pellon cup; also Gr.
ku/mbh, Sk. kumbha; -- (b) exterior=heap, cp. Ags. h/ap, Ohg. heap, Sk. k(pa mast]. 1. a pit, a cavity:
akkhi˚ the socket of the eye M i.80, 245; DhsA 306; g(tha˚ a cesspool D ii.324; Sn 279; Pv ii.316; Pug 36;
mi)ha˚ a pit for evacuations Pgdp 23, 24; loma˚ the root of the hair, a pore of the skin DA i.57; Vism 262,
360; also in na loma -- k(pamatta' pi not even a hairroot J i.31; iii.55; vacca˚=g(tha˚ Vin ii.141, 222. As a
tank or a well: J vi.213; VvA 305. -- 2. the mast of a boat J iii.126; Miln 363, 378. See next. -- kha*a one
who digs a pit J vi.213. -- tala the floor of a pit Vism 362.
K(paka
K(paka=k(pa 1. Vism 361 (akkhi˚), 362 (nad"t"ra˚), 449 (id.); =k(pa. 2. J ii.112; iv.17.
K(la
K(la (nt.) [Dhtp 271: k(la !vara*e] a slope, a bank, an embankment. Usually of rivers: S i.143=J iii.361; A
i.162; Sn 977; J i.227; Miln 36: udap!na˚ the facing of a well Vin ii.122; vaccak(passa k˚ the sides of a
cesspool Vin ii.141. See also pa'su˚, & cp. uk˚, upa˚, pa&i˚.
K(ra
K(ra (nt.) in sukkha˚ boiled rice (?) Vin iv.86; DhA ii.171.
Keka
Keka [?] N. of a tree J v.405. Kern, Toev. s. v. suggests misreading for koka Phoenix sylvestris.
Ke&ubha
Ke&ubha [deriv. unknown] expld by Buddhaghosa DA i. 247 as "the science which assists the officiating
priests by laying down rules for the rites, or by leaving them to their discretion" (so Trenckner, J.P.T.S.
1908, 116). In short, the ritual; the kalpa as it is called as one of the vedangas. Only in a stock list of the
subject a learned Brahmin is supposed to have mastered D i.88; A i.163, 166; Sn 1020; Miln 10, 178. So in
BSk; Av- ii.19; Divy 619.
Ke&ubhin
Ke&ubhin [deriv. unknown] MA 152 (on M i 32) has "trained deceivers (sikkhit! ker!tik!); very deceitful,
false all through"; iii.6=A iii.199.
Ketaka
Ketaka [etym. uncertain] N. of a flower J iv.482.