कच्छप m. (
-पः)
1. A turtle, a tortoise.
2. One of KUVERA'S Nidhis or treasures.
2. An attitude in wrestling.
4. A flat kind of still.
f. (
-पी)
1. A female tortoise, also a small one.
2. A kind of lute, also the lute of SARASWATI.
3. A cutaneous disease, wart or blotch.
E. कच्छ a morass, and
प who cherishes, who inhabits watery places: the lute, &c. are so named from being similar in shape to the tortoise.