ছায়া : (p. 379) chāẏā a reflection, a shadow; shade, umbra (ছায়ায় বসা); semblance, resemblance, likeness (ছেলেটি বাপেরই ছায়া); slight influence (এ কবিতায় রবীন্দ্রনাথের ছায়া আছে); a faint shadow (এ উত্সবে আনন্দের ছায়াও নেই); a constant companion (ছায়া হয়ে সঙ্গে থাকা); a spectre, an apparition, a ghost (ছায়াশরীর); darkness (রাতের ছায়া, সন্ধ্যার ছায়া); glow, shine, lustre (রত্নচ্ছায়া); shelter or protection ('দেহ পদচ্ছায়া'); the name of the wife of the Hindu sungod. ছায়া না মাড়ানো to keep one's distance, to stand or keep aloof. ̃চিত্র n. a cinematographic film; a cinema. ̃তরু n. a large tree giving shade. ̃ত্মজ, ̃সুত n. Saturn, the son of the sungod. ̃দেহ, ̃শরীর n. a spectre, an apparition, a phantom, a ghost. ̃নট n. an Indian musical mode. ̃পথ n. galaxy, the Milky Way. ̃বাজি n. magic; magic lantern. ̃ভিনয় n. shadow-play. ̃মণ্ডপ n. a canopied place in the open (esp. where a Hindu wedding-ceremony is held). ̃ময় a. shady, umbrageous, shadowy, bowery (ছায়াময় স্হান); spectral, apparitional, ghostly (ছায়াময় দেহ). ̃মুর্তি n. an apparition, a phantom, a spectre, a ghost. 11)

(p. 374) chaḍ়ā1 to get scratched or grazed or bruised or flayed; to strip the skin or bark from. 17)

(p. 374) chi a portable covering made of straw for a boat or hackery. 3)

(p. 381) chiẏāttara seventy-six. ছিয়াত্তরের মন্বন্তর the famine that occurred in Bengal and also in several other provinces of India in the Bengali era 1176 (1769 A.D.). 6)

(p. 375) chanda2, chandḥ poetical metre; prosody. ছন্দপতন, ছন্দপাত, ছন্দোভঙ্গ n. an instance of defect or break in the poetical metre (cp. catalectic); (fig.) disturbance (জীবনের ছন্দপতন). ছন্দবিশ্লেষণ n. scansion. ছন্দঃশাস্ত্র, ছন্দশাস্ত্র n. prosody. 19)

(p. 380) chipa1 a very fast-moving lightweight and long boat. 15)

(p. 377) chān̐da shape, form, cut (মুখের ছাঁদ); type, style, manner (অক্ষরের ছাঁদ, কথার ছাঁদ, নানান ছাঁদ). 9)

(p. 375) chapa expressing a splashing noise. ছপছপ int. expressing repeated or continuous splashing noise. 24)

(p. 374) cha1 the seventh consonant of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 382) chēbalā spell. of ছ্যাবলা । 24)

(p. 382) chōladāri a small triangular tent (esp. one used in the army). 43)

(p. 382) chōm̐ẏā to touch. n. touch (ছোঁয়া লাগা) a. touched, contacted; touching (আকাশছোঁয়া). ̃চ n. (usu. dero.) touch, contact, contagion, influence. ̃চে a. contagious. ছুঁয়ি n. mutual touch or contact; impurity caused by touch or contact. ̃নো v. to cause to touch or be touched. ̃লেপা n. act of touching the untouchable; impurity caused by the touch of the so-called untouchable. 32)

(p. 374) chaḍ়1 hide, skin (হরিণের ছড়). 15)

(p. 377) chān̐ca1 eaves (of a roof or thatch); a pent-house. ̃তলা n. the space below the overhanging roof or thatch. 2)

(p. 381) chila of the verb-root আছ or থাকা । 9)

(p. 381) chuṭa1 a string for dressing hair; a fillet; a wearing cloth. 19)