كل

कुल kul [Ap. Prk. कुलु ; Prk. कुलं or कुलो; S. कुलं], s.m. A herd, troop, flock, assemblage, multitude; a race, caste, tribe, family, house, relations; lineage, pedigree; noble or eminent family or race, noble lineage;—a grange holding as much land as can be tilled by two ploughs each drawn by six bulls:—kulāćār (la+āć˚), s.m. The peculiar or proper duty of a family, or caste, or race (=kul-dharm):—kulāćārya (˚la+āć˚), s.m. A family teacher, family priest; one well versed in the pedigrees and customs of different families and employed to contract marriages between them:—kulućhāl, s.m.=kul-boṛ, q.v.:—kul ućhālnā= kul boṛnā, q.v.:—kulārṇav (˚la+ar˚), and kulujāgar, s.m. An epithet of anyone who occasions the celebrity of his family or tribe (e.g. Rām; and Christ, of the tribe of Judah, etc.):—kul-badhū, s.f. A virtuous woman of a noble family:—kul-boṛ(f. -ā), or kul-boṛak (f. -ikā), s.m. One who disgraces his family; a reprobate:—kul boṛnā, To disgrace one's own family:—kul-be`ohār, s.m.=kul-dharm, q.v.:—kul-pālak, adj. & s.m. (f. -ikā), Protecting a family, nourishing or providing for a family;—one who nourishes or provides for a family:—kul-pāli or pālī, s.f. A chaste, high-born, or noble woman:—kul-pati, s.m. The head or chief of a family or race; a patriarch:—kul-parivār, s.m. Friends and relatives of the same tribe or caste, family connexions, kith and kin:—kulpūj, or kul-pūjya, or kul-pūjak, s.m. The object of worship or reverence in a family, a household god; a family priest:—kul-tāraṇ, s.m. The saviour of his family or tribe; a youth who is a credit to his family:—kul-druh, or kuldrohī, s.m. (f. -iṇī), One who brings disgrace or injury on his own family:—kul-dharm, s.m. Practice or observance peculiar to a caste, tribe, or family; peculiar or proper duty of a family or caste or race:—kul-devatā, s.f. A principal deity; an epithet of the goddess Durgā:—kuldevī, s.f. Family goddess, any female deity worshipped in particular by a family through successive generations:—kul-rīt, s.f.=kuldharm, q.v.:—kul-kā, adj. (f. -ī), Of or relating to a caste or family; in respect of caste or family:—kul-karm, s.m. = kul-dharm, q.v.:—kul-kalanki, s.m. (f. -inī), One who disgraces a family:—kul-gālīor gārī, s.f. Abuse of one's own family or tribe:—kul-maryādā, vulg. kulmarjād, s.f. Family honour or respectability;—also = kul-dharm, q.v.:—kul-nāś, s.m. A reprobate; an outcast;—a camel:—kul-nām, s.m. Family name, surname:—kul-nāyak, s.m.=kul-patī, q.v.:—kul-nāyikā, s.f. A girl worshipped at the celebration of the orgies of the left-hand Śāktas:—kul-vadhū, s.f.=kulvantī, q.v.:—kul-vān, or kul-vat, or kul-vant, adj. & s.m. (f. -vatī), Of noble family or descent, of gentle blood, well-born, genteel, pure, chaste;—a person of good family, etc.:—kul-vantī, s.f. A gentlewoman, a respectable or noble woman; a virtuous woman.