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  • Two units came to exist side by side: the old Janissaries, designated as yerliyya (local), and the new force, known as kapi kul (imperial).

    1656-61 2001

  • Laal deha laaleel-se, arudhari-laal langoor vajra deha daanava dalan, jai jai jai kapi-soor

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The real Thai cook will tell you to pound kapi or the shrimp paste with all the spices and fry the paste in oil before adding the meat.

    Nam Prik Ong - Northern Thai Tamato and Meat Dip sucheela 2008

  • The real Thai cook will tell you to pound kapi or the shrimp paste with all the spices and fry the paste in oil before adding the meat.

    Archive 2008-01-01 sucheela 2008

  • I'm going to have some fried or grilled aubergine tonight with some 'nam prik kapi'.

    Food Bloggers Have Yet To Let Me Down Brilynn 2007

  • Maugrabee, with his large leaden eye gazing across the Golden Horn, and fixed on the wharf of the dead, just as he had been left behind there gazing at the Divan-kapi-iskellesi.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 Various

  • Ape is from the Sanskrit _kapi_; _kap_ in the same language means tremble; but the connection is not clear.

    The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

  • Tamil [9], _kapi-kottai_ or _kopi_; Canareze [10], _kapi-bija_; Chinese,

    All About Coffee 1909

  • Abyssinian, _bonn_ [11]; Foulak, _legal café_ [12]; Sousou, _houri caff_ [13]; Marquesan, _kapi_; Chinook [14], _kaufee_; Volapuk, _kaf_;

    All About Coffee 1909

  • It was brought from India by the fleets of Solomon and Hiram, and was called by the Hebrews koph_, and by the Greeks _kepos, both words being just the Indian Tamil name of the monkey, kapi, i.e., swift, nimble, active.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

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