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makr, vulg. makar (inf. n. of مكر 'to plot; to deceive,' etc.), s.m. Plotting; plot, machination; fraud, deceit; duplicity; wile, artifice, trick; cheating, imposture; evasion; pretext, pretence; colour; disguise:—makr-āmez, adj. Deceitful; fallacious;—artful, wily, etc.:—makar-ćakar, s.m. Fraud and subterfuge; artifices, wiles, tricks, etc.:—makr-ćāṅdnī, s.f. Faint (or deceitful) moonlight:—makr karnā, or kar-jānā, or makr gāṅṭhnā, v.n. To feign, pretend, sham.
Origin: Arabic