kad 1
kad cl. 1. Ā. kadate, cakāda (R. ed. Gorresio vi, 65, 23
• but ed. Bomb. vi, 86, 24 reads cakāra), to be confused, suffer mentally
• to grieve
• to confound
• to kill or hurt
• to call
• to cry or shed tears Dhātup. xix, 10
kad 2
kád ind. (originally the neuter form of the interrogative pronoun ka), a particle of interrogation (= Lat. nonne, num) RV
• anything wrong or bad BhP. vii, 5, 28 (cf. below)
• = sukha Nigh
• kad is used, like kim, with the particles cana and cid, 'sometimes, now and then'
• kac-cana with the negation na, 'in no way or manner' RV
• kac-cid is also used, like the simple kad, as a particle of interrogation (e.g. kaccid dṛṣṭā tvayā rājan damayantī, was Damayantī seen by thee, O king?) MBh., or kaccid may be translated by 'I hope that'
• at the beginning of a compound it may mark the uselessness, badness or defectiveness of anything, as in the following examples