Meaning of कफ in English

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.
An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.
One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
To buffet.
To fight; to scuffle; to box.
A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.
A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.
An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs.
Phlegmatic.
Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.
See Pliocene.