كوٹھا

कोठा koṭhā[Prk. कोट्ठओ; S. कोƵ+कः], s.m. A granary, barn; storehouse;—a house built of burnt brick or stone; a mercantile house or firm (=koṭhī, which is the com. form); a large (inner) room or apartment; the flat top or roof of a house; an upper storey; a storey, floor, flat;—the upper half of the body; the stomach, abdomen, bowels; the womb;—a column (in a table, or form, etc.; syn. ḵẖāna);—the multiplication table (syn. pahāṛā):—koṭhābigaṛnā, The stomach, or bowels, or the womb, to become deranged:—koṭhe-par baiṭhnā, To sit on the house-top, or in an upper storey;—to become a prostitute:—koṭhe-kāsaḵẖt, adj. Having constipated bowels, of constipated habit:—koṭhe-meṅ ḍālnāor ḍāl-denā, To put away in a storehouse; to store up:—kothā-wālī, or koṭhe-wālī, s.f. A public prostitute (opp. to ḵẖāṅgī).