- (kwo) crust, incrustation; scab (incrustation) |

pan-krosta - a crust of bread |

Portuguese

- (kwel) raw, crude |

kru masu - raw meat |

Portuguese

- (kwel) cruel |

Syn.: brutale

- (kwo) jar, jug, pitcher |

German

- (kwo) crumb |

krumi - (zwo) crumb, crumble |

Danish

- (zwo) crash, collapse |

krusha - (kwo) crash, collapse, wreck |

krushisi - (zwo) smash, defeat, beat, shatter |

krushisa - (kwo) rout, crushing defeat

- (kwel) steep |

nokrute - (kwel) slightly/gently sloping |

Syn.: abrupte |

Russian

- (gramatika) interrogative particle |

Me darfi zin ku? - May I come in? |

Yu pri sey kitaba ku? - Do you like this book? |

Yu lai ku? - Are you coming? |

Yu ku lai? - Is it you who will come? |

See also: ob

- (kwo) cube |

kubike - (kwel) cubic

- (kwo) elbow (also a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it)

- (kwo) lock (device for fastening) |

pendikufla - padlock |

Arabic

- (kwo) cockroach

- (zwo) cook |

kuking - (kwo) cooking |

kuker - (kwo) cook |

kukishamba, kukilok - (kwo) kitchen

- (kwo) doll |

Greek

- (kwo) cuckoo |

kuku fai ku-ku - a cuckoo cries "cuckoo"

- (kwo) bullet (projectile) |

kuladan - (kwo) case (receptacle for bullet) |

kulakin - (kwo) (small) shot |

kulagron - (kwo) shell (projectile for cannon) |

Icelandic

- (kwo) fist |

kulak-batala - (kwo) fistfight |

Russian

- (zwo) culminate, reach the highest point |

kulmina - (kwo) culmination

- (kwo) guilt |

es may kulpa - it's my guilt |

kulpa-ney (kulpe) - (kwel) guilty |

kulpe om koysa - guilty of smth |

kulpe versu koywan - guilty towards smb |

sinkulpa-ney (sinkulpe) - (kwel) guiltless, innocent |

kulpanesa - (kwo) guiltiness

- (zwo) cultivate |

kultiva - (kwo) cultivation

- (kwo) culture |

kultura-ney (kulture) - (kwel) cultural |

kulturisi - (zwo) culturize

- (syao) god- (related through christening) |

kumpatra - (kwo) godfather |

kummata - (kwo) godmother |

kumson - (kwo) godson |

kumman - (kwo) godfather of one's child; father of one's godchild |

kumisma - (kwo) nepotism

- (kwo) caraway |

Arabic

- (konekti) with, along with |

Me yao go adar kun yu. - I want to go there with you. |

Me pri pi chay kun milka. - I like to drink tea with milk. |

Gina kun bavul. - Woman with a suitcase. |

kunem - (komo) with oneself |

Pren me kunem! - Take me with you! |

Mani bu es kunem. - I don't have money on me (with me).

- (kwo) butt (of gun) |

Hindi, Pashtoo

- (kwo) rabbit

- (zwo) take with one |

(Origin: kun+pren)

- (zwo) converse, talk |

kunshwosa - (kwo) conversation, talk |

kunshwoer - (kwo) interlocutor |

Syn.: toki

- (kwo) Midsummer Day |

Slavic

- (zwo) buy |

kupa - (kwo) purchase (act of purchasing or smth purchased) |

kuping - (kwo) shopping |

kuper - (kwo) buyer, purchaser

- (kwo) copper

- (kwo) cupola, dome |

Spanish

- (kwo) courage, boldness |

kuraja-ney (kuraje) - (kwel) courageous, bold, daring, audacious |

kuraji - (zwo) dare, be bold, venture |

kurajisi - (zwo) encourage, hearten |

kurajnik - (kwo) man of courage |

nokuraja - (kwo) cowardice

- (zwo) court (someone of the opposite sex), woo

- (kwel) curious (odd, arousing interest because of novelty or strangeness - cf. "jigyas-ney")

- (kwo) turmeric |

Arabic

- (kwo) curls |

kurlinka - (kwo) curl |

kurli - (zwo) curl (intr.) |

kurlisi - (zwo) curl (tr.), twist into ringlets or coils |

kurlisa - (kwo) curling, (hair-)wave |

kurla-ney (kurle), kurlahar-ney - (kwel) curly, curly-haired

- (kwo) course (of lessons, of lectures, of study, etc.); (fin.) rate (of exchange); course (direction)

- (kwel) short |

kurti - (zwo) shorten (tr./intr.) |

mah-kurte (kurtisi) - (zwo) shorten (make shorter) |

fa-kurte (kurtifi) - (zwo) shorten (become shorter) |

kurtem - (komo) shortly, in short

- (kwo) curtain |

kurteni - (zwo) curtain |

dekurteni - (zwo) uncurtain

- (kwel) ugly, unsightly |

kurupa - (kwo) ugly creature, ugly person |

Hindi

- (kwel) curved, crooked, bent |

kurva - (kwo) curve |

kurvitaa - (kwo) curvature |

kurvi - (zwo) curve, bend (tr./intr.) |

kurvifi - (zwo) curve, bend (become curved), wind |

kurvisi - (zwo) curve, bend (cause smth to change its shape into a curve)

- (kwel) skilful, deft, dexterous, clever |

nokushale - (kwel) awkward, clumsy |

Hindi

- (kwo) pillow, cushion |

kushenkuta - (kwo) pillow case

- (zwo) bite |

kusa - (kwo) bite |

kusishil - (kwel) biting (tending to bite)

- (kwo) tegument, coating, envelope (wrapping) |

baumkuta - (kwo) tree bark |

letakuta - (kwo) envelope (wrapper for a letter) |

kuti - (zwo) envelop, wrap, cover, coat |

dekuti - (zwo) uncoat, unwrap; peel |

Russian

- (zwo) care, take care; be concerned, worry |

kuydi kinda - care for children |

kuydi flor - look after flowers |

bu kuydi om to - don't worry about that |

kuyda - (kwo) care, concern, worry |

kun kuyda - with care |

kuyda-ney (kuyde) - (kwel) careful, thorough |

kuyda-nem (kuydem) - (komo) carefully, thoroughly |

kuydishil - (kwel) careful, considerate, conscientious |

sinkuyda-ney (sinkuyde) - (kwel) careless; carefree |

sinkuyda-nem (sinkuydem) - (kwel) carelessly; light-heartedly, with complete unconcern |

kuydaful - (kwel) preoccupied

- (kwo) square (polygon) |

kwadri - (zwo) square (raise to the second power) |

kwadra-ney (kwadre) - (kwel) square (but not "honest, fair") |

kwadra-riza - square root |

do kwadra - (kwel) checkered (divided into squares)

- (kwo) chopsticks |

chi bay kwaizi - eat with chopsticks |

un para kwaizi - a pair of chopsticks |

un ge kwaizi - a chopstick |

Syn.: chi-stik |

Mandarin

- (zwo) croak (of a frog, to make its cry) |

bakak kwaki - frog croaks |

Russian

- (zwo) qualify (characterize; certify) |

kwalifa - (kwo) qualification

- (kwo) quality |

kwalitaa-ney - (kwel) qualitative

- (kwo) fumes, charcoal fumes |

Swedish

- (kwo) well |

Hindi

- (kwo) ore |

fer kwanshi - iron ore |

kwanshilok - (kwo) mine (place where ores and minerals are extracted) |

Mandarin

- (kwo) quantity |

kwantitaa-ney - (kwel) quantitative

- (kwesti) how much, how many |

Kwanto yar yu hev? - How old are you? |

Kwanto it kosti? - How much does it cost? |

Me bu ve pagi tanto kwanto lu yao. - I will not pay as much as he wants.

- (kwo) quantum (physics)

- (kwo) quartz

- (kwo) kvass |

Russian

- (konekti-komo) quasi, as if, as it were, as though |

Ta shwo kwasi me bu audi hao. - He speaks as if I don't hear him well.

- (kwel, komo) quick, rapid, fast; quickly, rapidly, promptly |

kway tren - fast train |

kway kom bliza - as quick as lightning |

kwaytaa - (kwo) quickness, rapidity; speed, velocity |

Mandarin

- (kwo) rapids

- (kwesti) which, what (which one) |

Kwel es lu? - What is he like? |

Kwel de li? - Which (one) from them? |

Kwel kitaba yu zai lekti? - What book are you reading? |

Suy okos es do kwel kolor? - What color are her eyes? |

Kwel bus go adar? - What bus goes there? |

Kwelgrad? - To what extent?

- (zwo) quarrel (engage in a quarrel; dispute angrily) |

kwerela - (kwo) quarrel, altercation, variance, brawl

- (kwo) oak

- (zwo) ask |

kwesta - (kwo) question |

kwesta-ney (kweste) - (kwo) interrogative |

kwesta-nem (kwestem) - (kwo) interrogatively |

kwesti-signa - (kwo) question-mark

- (zwo) abandon, forsake, quit |

Bu kwiti me! - Don't abandon me! |

kwiti kama - get out of bed |

kwiti molya, gunsa - quit the wife, the work |

kwiti fumi - give up smoking

- (kwesti) what |

Kwo yu maini? - What do you mean? |

Kwo es se? - What is this? |

Note. "What" as an adjective (before a noun) is "kwel".

- (kwo) quota