کام काम kām
H کام काम kām [Prk. कम्मो; S. कर्म (base कर्मन्)], s.m. Action, act, deed, work, doing, handiwork, performance; work, labour, duty, task, job; business, occupation, employment, office, function; operation, undertaking, transaction, affair, matter, thing, concern, interest;—a hard task, a difficult matter; a feat; object, end, purport;—workmanship; manufacture; needlework, embroidery;—service, use; serviceableness, fitness (for); need (of, -se), occasion (for);—the mail-packet, mails, post-bag:—kām-āsakt, adj. Zealously following or pursuing a business; occupied, busy:—kām ānā or ā-jānā, v.n. To come into use; to come of use (to, -ke), be of use or service, prove serviceable (to); to be of avail, to avail, to stand in stead; to be wanted; to be used, or consumed, or spent (in, -meṅ); to fall, be killed or slain (in battle, &c.):—kām baṛhānā (-kā, or apnā), To increase the work (of);—to lay aside work, to cease from, or give over, work:—kām bigāṛnā or bigāṛ-denā (-kā), To spoil or mar the work (of); to make a mess of a business, &c.; to put a spoke in (one's) wheel; to baffle, to foil; to ruin (one's) reputation or credit:—kām baiṭhnā, v.n. A work to be begun; a workshop to be opened, a business to be started or established:—kām-par jānā, v.n. To go to work; to go on duty:—kām-par honā, v.n. To be at work; to be engaged in work, to have a post or employment, be in office:—kām paṛnā, v.n. To come or be of use, to prove of service (=kām ānā); to have to do (with, -se), to have business (with), to require, be in need (of), have occasion (for):—kām-pe (or -par) lagānā (-ko), To set (one) to work, give (one) work to do; to give (one) an employment, to employ, take into service:—kām tamām karnā (-kā), To finish a work or business, accomplish a task; to settle the business (of), to put an end (to one), to despatch, to kill:—kām tamām honā (-kā), A work or task to be finished, &c.; the business (of a person) to be settled, to be put an end (to), to be killed:—kām ćaṛhānā (-kā), To put a work or job in hand; to set a (machine, &c.) to work:—kām ćalānā (apnā), To keep a work going; to further or advance a work or business; to manage to do (with, -meṅ):—kām-ćalāʼū, adj. Sufficient to go on with; answering as a make-shift; serviceable:—kām-ćor, s.m. One who shirks work; one who does not give his full tale of work; a skulker, an idle fellow:—kām-dār, adj. Worked (with, -kā); having any particular kind of work; embroidered;—s.m. Man of business, manager, agent, steward:—kām-dārī, s.f. Managership, management, agency, stewardship:—kām-dānī, s.f. A kind of embroidery work on net or muslin (small flowers worked in gold or silver thread):—kām dekhnā (-kā), To inspect the work (of), to overlook, supervise:—kām denā (-ko), To give work or employment (to), to employ; to make over office or charge (to); to render good service (to, -kā), to work well (for):—kām rakhnā (-se), To have business or work (with), to have to do (with), to occupy oneself (with); to be connected (with):—kām supurd karnā (-ko), To give (one) work to do; to make over charge of an office (=kām denā):—kām-se jātā rahnā, v.n. To be or become unfit for use, to become unserviceable, be past work; to be removed from office or employment:—kām-se kām rakhnā (apne), To mind one's own business:—kām farmānā, v.t. To bring into operation or use, to make use of, to apply:—kām-kā, adj. (f. -ī), Of work, working, busy (e.g. kām-kā din); of use, useful, of service, serviceable, of importance (to, -se); of need:—kām-kāj, s.m. Work, occupation, business, affairs:—kām-kājī, adj. & s.m. Laborious, industrious, busy, active; managing, superintending;—a worker, laborious or industrious man; manager, superintendent:—kām karnā, To do work, to be busy; to act; to engage in practical affairs; to mind (one's own, apnā) business; to accomplish a business; to act or operate (upon, -par), to be of use (to), to take effect (on), be effectual, to succeed; to settle the business (of, -kā), to kill, destroy:—kām khulnā, v.n.=kām baiṭhnā, q.v.:—kām lagānā, To begin a work, to take or put a work in hand:—kām lenā, To take in work, to undertake a job; to take over charge of an office (from, -se); to work (one, or a beast, &c.), to make use (of, -se), to use:—kām milnā, To obtain an employment, or a post, &c.:—kām-meṅ, adv. In work; in use:—kām-meṅ deh ćurānā or lūkānā, To shirk work, to skulk; to work in a dilatory manner:—kām-meṅ kām nikālnā, To kill two birds with one stone:—kām-meṅ lānā (-ko), To bring into use, to use, to employ; to apply; to expend:—kām nikālnā (-se), To carry into effect, to effect (one's) purpose (by means of), to accomplish (one's) desire; to get (one's) work done:—kām nikalnā (-se), Work to be got out (of); things to be gained, or to result:—kām-hīn, adj. Without work, unemployed, unoccupied; vacant; unused, lying idle.
