kātara | कातर | kAtara

kātara | कातर | mf(A)n. (etym. doubtful, perhaps from katara | कतर |, ‘uncertain as to which of the two’, BRD.), cowardly, faint-hearted, timid, despairing, discouraged, disheartened, confused, agitated, perplexed, embarrassed, shrinking, frightened, afraid of (loc. or inf. or in comp.), R.; Mṛcch.; Ragh.; Megh.; Śak.; Pañcat.; Hit.
kātara | कातर | m. a kind of large fish (Cyprinus Catla, kātala | कातल |), L.
N. of a man (see kātarāyaṛa | कातरायऋअ |)
kātara | कातर | n. (in sa-kātara | स-कातर |) ‘timidity, despair, agitation’.

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