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काक kāka, vulg. kāk, s.m. (f. -ī), A crow:—kāk-bandhyā, s.f. A woman that bears only one child:—kāk-bhasunḍ, s.m. A kind of mountain crow, a large crow; a raven; a r̤ishior god of crows who (in the form of a crow) ate the leavings of Rām:—kāk-paksh, s.m. 'Crow's feather'; the side-locks which are left when the head (of a Hindū) is first shaved; side-locks; ringlets, tresses:—kāk-pīlu, s.m. A kind of ebony:—kāka-tālīya, adj. & s.m. Unexpected, accidental, casual, fortuitous (as in the fable of the fruit of the plam falling unexpectedly at the moment of the alighting of a crow, and killing it);—coincidence, accident; chance, casualty:—kāk-mārī, s.f. The plant Menispermum cocculus (the seed of which is the Cocculus indicus):—kāk-madau, s.m. A water-hen, gallinule:—kāk-mard, s.m. The colocynth or bitter apple, Cucumis colocynthis.