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kotāh [Pehl. kūdak, kutak; Zend kutaka; S. क्षुिक], adj. Short, little, small; mean; cut short, brief; settled;—kotāh-andesh, adj. & s.m. Shortsighted; wanting in foresight; imprudent, improvident, indiscreet;—a shortsighted person, etc.:—kotāh-andeshī, s.f. Shortsightedness; imprudence, improvidence, indiscretion:—kotāh-bīn, adj. Dim-sighted; shortsighted, etc. (=kotāh-andesh):—kotāh-bīnī, s.f. Shortsightedness, etc.:—kotāh-pāća, or kotāhpā`e, s.m. lit. 'Short-footed'; a kind of quadruped with a spotted back and horns like a deer (the term is applied sometimes to a hare); (met.) a very short sneaking little man:—kotāhdast, adj. Short-handed; slow, backward, not forward or prone (e.g. to punish, or to tyrannize); weak:—kotāh-qad, adj. Of short stature:—kotāh karnā, v.t. To cut short, to shorten, abridge; to settle; to hold short (of, -se), to withhold (from), to be slow or backward (in):—kotāh-gardan, adj. Short-necked; (met.) wicked; deceitful.