(p. 500) dīkṣā admission with rite (as to a religious practice or order, a secret society etc.), initiation; employment in service of some sacred cause (স্বাধীনতার মন্ত্রে দীক্ষা); an instruction or teaching; a sacrament; an inspiration; (dero.) an instigation. দীক্ষা দেওয়া v. to initiate; to convert (মুসলমানধর্মে দীক্ষা দেওয়া); to baptize (খ্রিস্টধর্মে দীক্ষা নেওয়া); to teach, to indoctrinate (into a subject); to employ. দীক্ষা পাওয়া, দীক্ষা নেওয়া v. to be initiated; to be converted; to be baptized; to be taught or indoctrinated, to learn; to be employed. ̃গুরু n. an initiator; a guru or preceptor who has initiated. ̃গ্রহণ n. act of receiving initiation. দীক্ষা গ্রহণ করা v. to be initiated. ̃মন্ত্র n. a mysterious formula that a person is taught at initiation. 21)

(p. 517) dēśi indigenous. n. a musical mode. দেশি কাপড় a variety of loincloth produced by the weavers of Bengal on handlooms; cloth manufactured in India (as opp. to বিলাতি). দেশি কুম়ড়ো see কুমড়ো । দেশি জিনিস, দেশি পন্য a home product; indigenous goods. 27)

(p. 506) duradhigama, duradhigamya difficult to obtain, not easily available; not easily accessible, difficult of access; difficult to comprehend or learn, not easily knowable or cognizable; abstruse. fem. দুরধিগম্যা । 6)

(p. 500) duḥkha sorrow; affliction; grief; distress, suffering, misery (দুঃখে পড়া); pain, inflammation; regret (দুঃখ প্রকাশ করা). দুঃখ করা v. to regret; to rue, to grieve; to suffer pain, to take trouble; to be in distress, to undergo misery. দুঃখ দেওয়া v. to cause sorrow or regret, to grieve; to afflict; to distress; to pain; to give trouble. দুঃখ পাওয়া বা ভোগ করা v. to be stricken with sorrow or grief or misery (জীবনে অনেক দুঃখ পেয়েছে); to be afflicted or distressed or pained; to be in trouble, to suffer. দুঃখে পড়া v. to run into distress or trouble. দুঃখের কাহিনি a woeful or pathetic tale. দুঃখের বিষয় a matter of regret; a pity; a painful affair. ̃কর, ̃জনক, ̃দ, ̃দায়ক, ̃দায়ী, ̃প্রদ a. painful; troublesome; woeful, distressing, agonizing; sorrowful. fem. দুঃখদায়িনী । ̃দারিদ্র n. distress and poverty, want and suffering or misery. ̃প্রদ same as দুঃখকর । ̃বাদ n. (phil.) pessimism. ̃বাদী a. pessimistic. n. a pessimist. ̃ভাগী a. sharing the sorrow of another. fem. দুঃখভাগিনী । ̃ভোগ n. act of suffering pain or undergoing distress. ̃ময় a. full of or abounding in sorrow or suffering. ̃মোচন n. act of relieving pain or distress; allaying or alleviation or mitigation of sorrow. ̃সহিষ্ণু a. one who patiently endures sorrow or suffering. ̃সাগর n. an ocean of sorrow, a sea of distress; endless sorrow or suffering. ̃হর, ̃হারী a. one who or that which relieves pain or sorrow or suffering. fem. দুঃখহরা, দুঃখহারিণী । 52)

(p. 505) duni a long canoe-shaped bucket for bailing out water. 7)

(p. 517) dōnā2 a dug-out, a tub, a canoe. 72)

(p. 485) darādari haggling or higgling, chaffering. দরাদরি করা v. to haggle, to chaffer. 41)

(p. 500) dīrghākṛti, dīrghākāra tall; large. 43)

(p. 495) dāminī lightning. 24)

(p. 522) dbaibhāgika (bot.) bifurcate. 75)

(p. 522) draḍh়īẏāna harder; stiffer; tougher; more firm; steadier. 98)

(p. 508) dēiji a kinsman, a blood-relation. দেউজি-শত্রুতা bloodfeud, vendetta. 105)

(p. 492) dātā one who or that which gives away in charity or gives or pays or contributes or donates; munificent, charitable. n. a giver, a payer, a contributor, a donor; a charitable or munificent man. ̃কর্ণ n. (fig.) a person as boundlessly charitable or bountiful as Karna of the Mahabharata. 24)

(p. 495) dāẏika responsible; indebted. 35)

(p. 522) dbitīẏa second; another. দ্বিতীয়া a. fem. second; another; (of the days of a lunar fortnight) second. n. a second day of a lunar fortnight. দ্বিতীয়ত adv. secondly, in the second place. দ্বিতীয় বিশ্বযুদ্ধ n. the Second World War. দ্বিতীয়াশ্রম n. the domestic or married life which is the second of the four stages of human life according to Hindu scriptures. 56)