kharā

1. (adj.) rough, hard, sharp; painful DN.ii.127 (ābādha); Ja.iii.26 (vedanā) Mil.26 (+ sakkhara-kaṭhala-vālikā), Pv-a.152 (loma, shaggy hair; cp. Np. Khara-loma-yakkha Vism.208)
   ■ -ka khara rough, stony Pv-a.265 (= thaṇḍila).
2. (m.) a donkey, a mule, in -putta, nickname of a horse Ja.iii.278.
3. a saw Ja.ii.230 (= kakaca C.); Ja.vi.261.

• -ājina a rough skin, as garment of an ascetic Snp.249 (= kharāni ajina-cammāni Snp-a.291); Pp.56;
• -gata of rough constitution Dhs.962; also as khari-gata MN.i.185; Vism.349 (= pharusa).
• -mukha a conch Ja.vi.580.
• -ssara of rough sound SN.ii.128.

cp. Sk. khara

any alkaline substance, potash, lye. In combination with ūsa (salt earth) at SN.iii.131 (-gandha) AN.i.209
■ Used as a caustic Pv.iii.10#2; Sdhp.281. See also chārikā.

• -āpatacchika a means of torturing, in enumⁿ of var tortures (under vividha-kamma-kāranā kārenti) MN.i.87; AN.i.48 = AN.ii.122 = Cnd.604; Ja.vi.17 (variant reading ˚ṭicch˚; C. has āpatacchika, variant reading paṭicchaka); Vism.500; Mil.197 Both A & Nd have variant reading kharāpaṭicchaka;
• -odaka an alkaline solution Vism.264, Vism.420; Dhp-a.i.189; Pv-a.213 cp. khārodikā nadī (in Niraya) Sdhp.194.

Sk. kṣāra, pungent, saline, sharp to ksā, kṣāyati to burn, cp. Gr. ςηρός, dry; Lat. serenus, dry, clear seresco to dry