كلا

कला kalā, s.f. A sixteenth part (of anything); a small part; part, portion, share; a digit or one-sixteenth ofthe moon's diameter; a particular division of time (about eight seconds); the sixtieth part of a degree, a minute; interest on capital (considered as a part of it);—any practical art, a mechanical or elegant art; accomplishment, skill, dexterity, ingenuity, art, contrivance, trick, juggling;—(in Hindūpoetry) a symbol for the number sixteen:—kalā-bāzī, s.f. Tumbling, turning over head and heels, taking a somersault:—kalā-bāzīkarnāor khānā, To tumble, to take a somersault:—kalā-jaṅg (S. kalā+jaṅghā), s.f. An acrobatic feat; a trick in wrestling:—kalā-jaṅg mārnā, To perform an acrobatic feat, etc.:—kalākarnāor khelnā, To play a trick:—kalā-nidhi, s.m. 'A treasury or storehouse of digits,' the moon:—kalāna badnā, To disobey, to decline; not to succeed (cf. next):—kalāna lagnā, 'A contrivance or device to fail of effect,' not to avail or succeed, not to have an advantage:—kalā-vant, vulg. kalāṅ-vat, or kalāṅ-vant, s.m. (f. -vatī), lit. 'Possessed of art or skill'; a class of singers or musicians; one of that class, a minstrel;—lit. 'having digits'; the moon.