(p. 194) kathā a word or words spoken; a saying; an utterance; a statement; mode of speaking, pronunciation (তার কথা আড়ষ্ঠ); voice (তার কথা শুনতে পেলাম); a dialect (বর্ধমানের কথা); a tale, a story; a chronicle or history (ভারত-কথা); news (গ্রামের কথা); a word (সে নিজের কথা রাখে); an opinion (এ বিষয়ে আমার কথা হল যে); professional narration of scriptural and mythological stories (জমিদার বাড়িতে কথা হবে); a topic, a discourse (এ কথার অবতারণা); conversation; speaking terms (তার সঙ্গে আমার কথা নেই); consultation, discussion (ডাক্তারের সঙ্গে কথা হয়েছে); counsel, advice; instigation; comparison (তার সঙ্গে কার কথা); an incident, an affair (যে সে কথা নয়); a request (সে আমার কথা রেখেছে); order, direction (ছেলেটা কথা শোনে না); necessity, need, compulsion (এ কাজ করতেই হবে, এমন কথা আছে?); plea (ভুল হলে কোনো কথা শুনব না); a proverb (কথায় বলে). কথা কওয়া v. to speak; to talk. কথা কাটা v. to refute; to protest. কথা দেওয়া v. to give one's word, to promise. কথা চালা v. to tell one's secrets to another; to indulge in scandal-mongering, to talk scandal, to gossip. কথা পাড়া v. to raise a topic; to propose. কথা না থাকা not to be on speaking terms with; not to be promised or decided beforehand. কথা রাখা to keep a promise; to be true to one's word. কথায় কথায় in course of conversation; incidentally during conversation, by the by, by the way; whilst talking (কথায় কথায় রাত হল). কথায় থাকা to involve oneself in. কথায় না থাকা to have nothing to do with. কথার কথা a word for word's sake; worth serious consideration (এ কি একটা কথার কথা হল ?). কথার খেলাপ breaking a promise. কথার ঝুড়ি (of a person) a chatterbox. কথার ধার sting of words. কথার নড়চড় deviation from one's promise. কথার ফের, কথার মারপ্যাঁচ a sly turn of speech; verbal trickery; jugglery of words; quibble. কথার শ্রাদ্ধ too much or unnecessary talking, words and words. ̃কলি n. Indian dance depicting ancient wartales. কথা কাটাকাটি n. arguments and counter-arguments; bandying of words; altercation; hot exchange. কথা কাটাকাটি করা v. to advance arguments and counter-arguments; to bandy words; to altercate; to be engaged in a hot exchange. কথা চালাচালি n. act of telling one's secrets to another; scandal-mongering; gossiping. কথা চালাচালি করা same as কথা চালা । ̃চ্ছলে same as কথাপ্রসঙ্গে । ̃ন্তর n. altercation; bandying of words; another topic; interval in course of conversation; a breach of promise. ̃প্রসঙ্গ n. conversation, talk; act of raising a topic; a topic; a context. ̃প্রসঙ্গে adv. in course of conversation; incidentally during conversation, by the way. ̃বার্তা n. conversation; a talk; a chat. ̃বার্তা বলা v. to talk; to chat. ̃মতো adv. in keeping with one's words or promise; in obedience to one's order or direction. ̃মাত্র n. mere words (having no genuine worth). ̃মাত্র সার mere words having no genuine worth, words or promises ending in smoke; false promise. ̃মুখ n. a preface. ̃রম্ভ n. the beginning of a story or conversation. ̃শিল্প n. creative literary works written in prose such as novels, stories etc. ̃শিল্পী n. an author of prose fiction, stories etc. ̃শেষ n. the end of a story or conversation. ̃সাহিত্য same as কথাশিল্প । ̃সাহিত্যিক same as কথাশিল্পী । 89)

(p. 194) kandala2 a quarrel, an altercation; a strife, a fight, a war. কন্দলিয়া a. quarrelsome; wrangling; shrewish; belligerent. 130)

(p. 412) jhagaḍ়ā a quarrel, a brawl, a row; an altercation; a dispute. ঝগড়া করা v. to quarrel; to altercate, to wrangle. ঝগড়া বাধানো v. to kick up a row, to pick a quarrel; have a dispute with, to set by the ears. ঝগড়া মেটানো v. to make up a quarrel, to settle a dispute. ̃ঝাঁটি n. (usu. pl.) trifling or peevish quarrel or altercation or dissension; quarrels. ̃টে a. quarrelsome, cantankerous; wrangling. 8)

(p. 442) takarāra an argument, a debate; an altercation. 9)

(p. 449) tarka a debate, an argument; reasoning; logic (তর্কশাস্ত্র); cause; discussion; consideration (মনে মনে তর্ক); dispute, controversy; altercation; doubt; assumption. তর্ক করা v. to debate; to argue; to reason; to discuss, to consider; to dispute; to altercate, to bandy words. ̃কারী a. & n. one who debates or argues or reasons or considers or disputes or altercates or bandies words; one who chops logic. ̃জাল n. array of arguments; (derog.) cobweb of argument. ̃বিজ্ঞান, ̃বিদ্যা, ̃শাস্ত্র n. logic. ̃বিতর্ক n. debate; altercation; arguments; bandying of words. ̃যুদ্ধ n. war of words. ̃যোগ্য a. arguable; debatable; controversial. ̃সাধ্য a. arguable; disputable; debatable. তর্কাতর্কি same as তর্কবিতর্ক । তর্কাভাস n. sophistry; a sophism. তর্কের খাতিরে adv. for the sake of argument. 74)

(p. 715) bacasā altercation; a brawl. বচসা করা v. to altercate, to wrangle, to bandy words; to brawl. 26)

(p. 741) bāda2 an utterance (সাধুবাদ); an argument (বাদপ্রতিবাদ); a complaint or charge (বাদী); a dispute or brawl (বাদবিসংবাদ); (log.) correct judgment; a doctrine, an ism, a theory (সাম্যবাদ). ̃প্রতিবাদ n. argument, dispute, verbal dispute; altercation. ̃বিতন্ডা n. wrangling, altercation; dispute; quarrel. 26)

(p. 765) bibāda a quarrel, a brawl; altercation; a dispute; a conflict; strife, hostility; a fight; an action at law, litigation; a breach of friendly relation. বিবাদ করা v. to quarrel, to brawl; to altercate; to dispute; to fight; to fight at law; to sever friendly relation. ̃প্রিয় a. quarrelsome; factious; litigious. ̃বিসংবাদ n. quarrels or brawls; disputes. ̃সূচি n. cause list. বিবাদী a. concerning a quarrel or dispute; under dispute (বিবাদী সম্পত্তি); contending; contesting; litigant; opposing, hostile. n. a contestant; a litigant; an opponent; the opposite party; the defendant (as opposed to the plaintiff); a note opposing the principal note of a musical mode. fem. বিবাদিনী (not in the musical sense). 12)

(p. 1060) hujjata altercation; a dispute; a hubbub, a row; a trouble, a quarrel. হুজ্জত বাধানো v. to raise a dispute; to create a row or trouble. হুজ্জতি a. given to create a row; troublesome; rowdyish; quarrelsome. 11)