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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कुब्जkubjaa.Humpbacked, crooked. अन्धाः खञ्जाः कुब्जा वामनकाश्च Garbha. Up.3. ब्जः A curved sword.

    [कु ईषत् उब्जमार्जवं यत्र शकंdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied Tv.]

    1. Humpbacked, crooked. अन्धाः खञ्जाः कुब्जा वामनकाश्च Garbha. Up.3. ब्जः A curved sword.
    2. A hump on the back.
    3. A sort of fish; Mb.7.56.8.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -ब्जा A young female servant of Kaṁsa, said to be deformed in three parts of her body. [Kṛiṣṇa and Balarāma, while proceeding to Mathurā, saw her on the high road carrying unguent to Kaṁsa. They asked her if she would give them some portion of it, and she gave as much as they wanted. Kṛiṣṇa, being very much pleased with her kindness, made her perfectly straight, and she began to appear a most beautiful woman.] -Compound

    • -किरातः -वामनः Adjective hump-backed person and a dwarf.

    • -गामिन् Adjective going crookedly, going astray; बुद्धयः कुब्ज- गामिन्यो भवन्ति महतामपि Pt.2.5.

    • -लीला the manner, gait or character of a hump-backed person; Ś.2.

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. कुब्जkubja[kubgá] a. hunch-backed; crooked; (a)-ka, a. id.; m. an aquatic plant.

    [kubgá] adjective hunch-backed; crooked; (a)-ka, adjective the same; masculine an aquatic plant.

  2. ककुब्जयkakubjaya[kakub-gaya] m. conquest of the world.

    [kakub-gaya] masculine conquest of the world.

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कुब्जkubjamf(आ)n. hump-backed, crooked VS. xxx, 10 Shad2vBr. MBh. &c.
    1. mf(आ)neuter gender hump-backed, crooked VS. xxx, 10 Shad2vBr. MBh. etc.
    2. masculine gender Name of a person born under certain constellations and being an attendant of the model man Han6sa हंस VarBr2S.
    3. masculine gender a curved sword Lexicographers
    4. masculine gender a sort of fish (Bola Cuja) W.
    5. masculine gender the plant Achyranthes aspera (Equivalent to अपा*मार्ग्/अ) Lexicographers
    6. masculine gender ([confer, compare न्युब्ज and कन्य-कुब्ज; confer, compare also Lithuanian kupra, kupotas; Greek κυφός, κύπτω; Latin gibbus, gibba, gibber .])
  2. अपरकान्यकुब्जaparakānyakubjam. N. of a village in the western part of Ka1nyakubja कान्यकुब्ज Pa1n2. 7-3, 14 Sch.

    masculine gender Name of a village in the western part of Ka1nyakubja कान्यकुब्ज Pa1n2. 7-3, 14 Scholiast or Commentator

  3. ककुब्जयkakubjayam. conquest of the quarters or of the world Ra1jat.

    masculine gender conquest of the quarters or of the world Ra1jat.

  4. कण्ठकुब्जkaṇṭhakubjam. a kind of fever (cf. अधर-कण्ठ, 1. उत्-कण्ठ, &c.)

    masculine gender a kind of fever (confer, compare अधर-कण्ठ, 1. उत्-कण्ठ, etc.)

  5. कण्ठकुब्जप्रतीकारkaṇṭhakubjapratīkāram. the cure of the preceding disease.

    masculine gender the cure of the preceding disease.

  6. कन्यकुब्जkanyakubjan. (f(आ). L.), N. of an ancient city of great note (in the north-western provinces of India, situated on the…

    neuter gender (f(आ). Lexicographers), Name of an ancient city of great note (in the north-western provinces of India, situated on the काली नदी, a branch of the Gan3ga1 गङ्गा, in the modern district of Farrukhabad; the popular spelling of the name presents, perhaps, greater variations than that of any place in India [exempli gratia, 'for example' Kanauj, Kunnoj, Kunnouj, Kinoge, Kinnoge, Kinnauj, Kanoj, Kannauj, Kunowj, Canowj Canoje, Canauj, etc.]; in antiquity this city ranks next to Ayodhya1 अयोध्या in Oude; it is known in classical geography as Canogyza; but the name applies also to its dependencies and the surrounding district; the current etymology [कन्या, "a girl", shortened to कन्य, and कुब्ज, "round-shouldered or crooked"] refers to a legend in R. i, 32, 11 ff., relating to the hundred daughters of Kus3ana1bha कुशनाभ, the king of this city, who were all rendered crooked by Va1yu वायु for non-compliance with his licentious desires; the ruins of the ancient city are said to occupy a site larger than that of London) MBh. Katha1s. etc.

  7. कन्यकुब्जदेशkanyakubjadeśam. the country round Kanyakubja कन्यकुब्ज .

    masculine gender the country round Kanyakubja कन्यकुब्ज .