QABALA/s (CABALA, CABBALA, CABBALAH, QABALAH, KABALA, KABBALA, KABBALAH) an occult or

secret doctrine
QABALISM - a sect based on qabala, also KABALISM, KABBALISM, CABALISM, CABBALISM
QABALIST - someone who finds hidden meanings in sacred texts, also CABALIST, KABALIST,
KABBALIST
QADI/s (CADI), a Muslim judge
QAID (CAID), a Muslim tribal chief or senior official
QAIMAQAM (KAIMAKAM) – a Turkish officer
QALAMDAN – a Persian writing case
QANAT/s - gently sloping underground tunnel for irrigation
QASIDA/s – an Arabic poem of praise or mourning
QAT/s (KAT),leaf of the shrub Catha edulis
QAWWAL/s – a male singer of qawwali
QAWWALI/s – devotional Sufi music

QI/s (CHI or KI), a circulating life energy in Chinese philosophy)

QIBLA/s – (KIBLAH, KEBLAH) the direction Muslims face when praying
QIGONG/s – a deep breathing exercise
QIN/s - a kind of Chinese zither with silken strings, also GUQIN
QINDAR - Albanian currency, variation of QINTAR
QINDARKA/QINTARKA (plural of QINDAR)
QINDARS (plural of QINDAR)
QINTAR/s - Albanian currency
QIVIUT/s (musk-ox wool)

QOPH/s (KOPH), 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

QORMA/s (KORMA) – a mild curry

QWERTY/s or QWERTIES - the traditional configuration of computer keyboard keys

BURQA (BURKA), a long, loose garment covering the whole body from head to feet, worn in public by
many Muslim women.
BUQSHA – monetary unit of Yemen
FAQIR (Muslim or Hindu monk)
FAQIRS (plural of FAQIR)
FIQH/s (Islamic jurisprudence)
GUQIN/s (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family)
INQILAB/s – in India, revolution
MBAQANGA (a style of South African music)
MBAQANGAS (plural of MBAQANGA)
NIQAB/s (a veil worn by some Muslim women)
SHEQALIM (plural of SHEQEL)
SHEQEL/s (SHEKEL), any of several ancient units of weight)
SUQ (SUK), an Arab market or marketplace; a bazaar
TALAQ/s (in Islamic law) divorce effected by the husband's threefold repetition of the word “talaq,”
this constituting a formal repudiation of his wife.

TRANQ/s (TRANK), sedative

TSADDIQ/s (TSADDIK)– a Hasidic leader
TZADDIQ/s - a virtuous person according to Jewish standards, also ZADDICK, ZADDIK
UMIAQ (UMIAC, UMIAK, UMIACK, OOMIAC, OOMIAK, OOMIACK) type of Eskimo boat
UMIAQS (plural of UMIAQ)
WAQF (WAKF) an endowment made by a Muslim to a religious, educational, or charitable cause.

YAQONA/s - the Fijian name for kava