(p. 687) pramōda joy, delight; merriment; hilarity; enjoyment; pleasure; recreation; an entertainment; luxury. ̃ক a. gladdening; pleasing; entertaining. ̃কানন n. a pleasure-garden. ̃গৃহ n. a pleasure-house, a recreation-room, a recreation-hall. ̃ন n. act of gladdening or pleasing or entertaining. in comp. (used as a sfx.) giving delight or pleasure to, entertaining (চিত্তপ্রমোদন). ̃ভ্রমণ n. a pleasure-trip; promenade. প্রমোদভ্রমণ করা v. to be on a pleasure-tirp; to promenade. প্রমোদিত a. delighted; pleased; recreated, entertained. প্রমোদোদ্যান n. a pleasure-garden. 8)

(p. 647) picha, pichana the back; the backside, the rear; (fig.) the past. পিছনে চলা v. to go or move backwards; to retrograde; to return or recede. পিছনে চাওয়া, পিছনে দেখা v. to look to one's own back; to look back; (fig.) to look to or consider the past. পিছন পিছন, পিছনে পিছনে on the back of, at the heels of. পিছন ফেরা v. to turn back; to look back; (fig.) to look to or consider the past. পিছটান, পিছনটান n. (lit.) a pull from the back; (fig.) attachment to one's family circle which retards or impedes one's progress. পিছপা a. taken aback, recoiled; reluctant. পিছপা হওয়া v. to be taken aback, to recoil, to flinch (in fear, pain etc.); to be reluctant. পিছমোড়া a. pinioned at the back. পিছমোড়া করে বাঁধা to pinion one at one's back. পিছনে লাগা v. to tease or vex (somebody); to make fun playfully or annoyingly. 43)

(p. 654) purāṇa a myth or mythology (esp. of Hindus). a. ancient; primordial (পুরাণ পুরুষ). ̃কর্তা, ̃কার n. an author of a mythology. ̃পুরুষ n. God. ̃প্রসিদ্ধি n. mention in the Puranas or mythology; long-standing fame. 41)

(p. 625) pariyāṇa traffic; migration. পরিযাণ নির্বাহক, পরিযাণ ব্যবস্হাপক n. a traffic manager. পরিযাণ আরক্ষী n. traffic police. 14)

(p. 619) parikīrtana act of singing or narrating or praising or glorifying emphatically or in a special manner. পরিকীর্তিত a. sung or narrated or praised or glorified emphatically or in a special manner. 41)

(p. 601) pakṣiśikāra killing or shooting of birds, fowling. 30)

(p. 606) paddhati a way, a path, a road; a method, a mode, a manner, a system, a rule; a custom, a practice; a row, a stretch, a series; a current; a line. পদ্ধতি অনুসারে methodically, systematically. 57)

(p. 606) paṇa a promise, a resolve (পণ রক্ষা); a wager, a stake, a bet (পাশাখেলার পণ); price (প্রাণপণ); a condition or term, a stipulation (ধনুকভাঙা পণ); compulsory dowry (esp, what is given to a bridegroom), marriage-money; a commodity; a measure of counting (= 2 গন্ডা). পণ করা v. to resolve. পণ দেওয়া v. to pay the dowry, to pay the bridegroom (or the bride) compulsory dowry or marriage-money. পণ ধরা, পণ রাখা v. to lay a wager, to bet, to stake. পণ নেওয়া v. to exact compulsory dowry or marriage-money. কন্যাপণ n. compulsory dowry or marriage-money given to the bride. বরপণ compulsory dowry or marriage-money given to the bridegroom. ̃কর n. betting tax. ̃কিয়া n. a table of reckoning by pans (পণ). ̃প্রথা n. the system of exacting dowry or marriage-money; (coll.) dowry system. ̃বদ্ধ a. bound by a promise, under pledge of. 17)

(p. 605) paṭakānō (coll.) to fling to the ground, to knock down; to defeat, to vanquish; to be overpowered. 3)

(p. 654) pṛthaganna (of a family) split up or divided into two or more units all having separate messing arrangements, separated. 113)

(p. 665) pēśā a profession, a trade, a calling; (fig.) a practice, a habit. ̃দার a. professional. ̃দারি n. professionalism. a. professional. 33)

(p. 633) pā-gāḍ়i a bicycle; (hum.) the foot or the leg (সবচেয়ে ভালো পা-গাড়ি). 47)

(p. 615) paradā a screen, a curtain; a veil, a zenana, purdah (পরদাপ্রথা); a thin skin or membrane, a film (চোখের পরদা); a covering; a layer, a strip, a flake (এক পরদা চামড়া; (of a musical instrument) a bridge or key; (of voice) a scale (সুরের পরদা). ̃নশিন a. (fem.) living behind the purdah, living in a zenana. ̃প্রথা n. the purdah-system. চোখের পরদা (fig.) sense of shame, sense of delicacy. 15)

(p. 684) prabandha an essay, an article; a dissertation; a treatise; sequence; a trick, a stratagem ('যতেক প্রবন্ধ করে নিশাচরগণে'). ̃কার n. an essayist. 7)

(p. 645) pālō starch obtained from zedoary etc.; gruel of this starch. 34)