خاك

ḵẖāk (cf. S. क्षारक), s.f. Dust, earth; ashes;—little, precious little, none at all, nothing whatever (e.g. to kām kyā ḵẖāk hotāhogā, 'What precious little work will be doing'; ḵẖāk jāntāhai, 'He knows nothing whatever');—intj. Out (upon)! away (with)! a fig (for)! etc. (e.g. ḵẖāk aisīzindagī-par):—ḵẖāk uṛāte phirnā, v.n. To go about kicking up a dust, to wander or saunter idly about:—ḵẖāk uṛānā, To throw dust, to raise a dust; to wander, roam;—to make a stir or commotion; to defame:—ḵẖāk uṛnāor uṛ-jānā, v.n. Dust to be blowing; to be clouded with dust;—(fig.) to be reduced to poverty; to be disgraced:—ḵẖākbāzī, s.f. Playing with dust:—ḵẖāk-pā, s.f. Dust of the feet; earth trodden under foot; the lowest or most worthless thing:—ḵẖāk phāṅknā, To wander, to stray;—to deviate (from truth), to lie:—ḵẖāk-toda, s.m. A pile or mound of earth; a butt or mark of earth (for shooting arrows at); a sand-hill:—ḵẖāk ćāṭnā, To lick the dust, to humble oneself:—ḵẖāk ćhānnā, 'To sift dust,' to labour or exert oneself to no purpose, to go through laborious and fruitless toil or search; to beat the air:—ḵẖāk-dān, s.m. A receptacle or pit for dust, earth, ashes, etc.; a place where rubbish is placed, a dust-bin;—(met.) the world:—ḵẖāk ḍālnā(-par), To throw dust (on); to bury, to conceal (an affair, or any thing disgraceful);—to heapcurses (on), to execrate;—ḵẖāk-rob, s.m. A sweeper:—ḵẖākroba, s.m. Sweepings, rubbish:—ḵẖāk-robī, s.f. Sweeping:—ḵẖāk-zād, adj. Earth-born; produced from or made of dust:—ḵẖāk-sār, adj. 'Like dust'; base, mean, low-born, humble, lowest of the low;—s.m. Humble petitioner (used by one in speaking of himself):—ḵẖāksārī, s.f. Humility, self-abasement, humbleness, lowness, meanness:—ḵẖāk sir-par uṛānā, To throw dust and ashes on the head, to mourn, lament:—ḵẖāk siyāh karnā(-kī), To plunder and lay waste a country, to depredate:—ḵẖāk-ě-shafā, ḵẖāk-shafā, s.f. 'Earth of healing'; sacred earth or ashes from a shrine:—ḵẖāk-sho, s.m. A person in the mint who washes the ashes to recover any particles of bullion which may have fallen;—the man who prepares earth for brickmaking or pottery:—ḵẖāk karnā, v.t., andḵẖākmeṅmilānā, v.t. To reduce to dust and ashes, to level with the ground, to waste, ruin demolish:—ḵẖāk-meṅmilnā, v.n. To mingle with the dust, to die, to perish; to be laid waste, be ruined, be demolished:—ḵẖāk-nā`e, s.f. (in Geog.) An isthmus:—ḵẖāk honā, v.n. To become or be reduced to dust; to be ruined (=ḵẖāk-meṅmilnā); to moulder or pine away; to be consumed (with rage, or jealousy, etc.).