كشار

क्षार kshāra, vulg. kshār, adj. (f. -ā), Salty; alkaline; acid; caustic, corrosive, pungent;—s.m. Any burning or corrosive substance (esp. an alkali, such as soda or potash), caustic alkali, a species of cautery; borax, borate of soda; salt; ashes; (cf. khār) a factitious or medicinal salt (commonly called 'black salt')—kshār-ras, s.m. A saline or alkaline flavour:—kshār-kardam, s.m. 'A pool of acid or saline mud'; name of a hell:—kshārkarma, s.m. Applying caustic alkali (lapis infernalis) to proud flesh, etc.:—kshār-mr̤ittikā, s.f. Saline soil, (especially) an impure sulphate of soda:—kshār-vr̤iksh, s.m. Any tree yielding abundant potash (as the plantain, etc.).