(p. 721) bān̐kā to bend, to curve (রেখাটি বেঁকেছে); to turn (পথটি এখানে বেঁকেছে); to become reluctant or unfavourable or ungracious or antipathetic (কর্তা বেঁকেছেন). a. bent, curved (বাঁকা বাঁশ); stopping, hunched (বাঁকা পিঠ); slanting, aslant (খুটিখানা বাঁকা); winding, tortuous, sinuous, spiral, roundabout (বাঁকা পথ); furtive, squint, oblique (বাঁকা চাহনি); cynical or unfriendly (বাঁকা দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি); crooked (বাঁকা মন); rude, harsh (বাঁকা কথা); insinuating; sly (বাঁকা উক্তি); reluctant, unfavourable, antipathetic. ̃চোরা a. having many curves and twists; not straightforward, crooked (বাঁকাচোরা কথা). বাঁকানো. v. to bend; to make reluctant or unfavourable or antipathetic. বেঁকে বসা v. to be placed or fixed slantingly; to become reluctant or unfavourable or antipathetic; to revise or retract one's previous opinion, desire, resolve etc., to refuse to fall in with or accede to. 258)

(p. 782) bēādaba unmannerly; impudent. বেআদবি n. unmannerlines; impudence. 35)

(p. 747) bārōẏā, m̐bārōm̐ẏā an Indian musical mode. 3)

(p. 721) balaẏa an ornament for the wrist, a bangle, a bracelet; an annulus, a circular region, a sphere; an orb or orbit; a belt (শান্তবলয়). ̃গ্রাস n. (astr.) an annular eclipse. বলয়াকার, বলয়াঙ্কিত a. ringshaped, circular, annular. বলয়িত a. encircled, enclosed, surrounded (সাগরবলয়িত = sea girt); having a ring; ringshaped, circular, annular. বলয়ী a. (bot.-of roots etc.) annulated. 136)

(p. 800) brāhma relating to Brahma (ব্রহ্ম) or God; endowed with knowledge about God. n. a Brahmo, a Brahmoist. ̃ধর্ম n. Brahmoism. ̃বিবাহ n. act of inviting a bridegroom versed in scriptures and marrying him to a bride with due obeisance; marriage (by registration) in accordance with the rules of the Brahmo Samaj. ̃সমাজ n. the Brahmo Samaj ̃মূহুর্ত n. the period of forty-eighth minute immediately preceding sunrise. 18)

(p. 751) biṃśa twenty; twentieth. ̃তি n. & a. twenty. বিংশতিতম a. twentieth. fem. বিংশতিতমী । 2)

(p. 790) baidya a physician; a healer; one of an upper-class Hindu caste. বৈদ্যক same as বৈদ্যশাস্ত্র । ̃নাথ n. Shiva (শিব) (whose image is installed at Deoghar). ̃শালা n. a clinic; a hospital. ̃শাস্ত্র same as আয়ুর্বেদ । ̃সংকট n. miscarriage of treatment on account of being treated by numerous physicians simultaneously. 44)

(p. 761) bibaraṇa a description; a statement, an account; recounting, narration; a narrative. বিবরণ দেওয়া v. to give an account of. বিবরণী n. a written report, an account. 85)

(p. 773) bihīna devoid of; deprived of, divested of; separated from. 77)

(p. 782) bēgabṛddhi acceleration of speed, speedup. 62)

(p. 765) bibhābasu the sun. 43)

(p. 765) bibhābarī the night. 42)

(p. 786) bēdābhyāsa study of the Vedas. 42)

(p. 786) bēniẏama illegality; irregularity; unlawfulness; violation of the rule. বেনিয়ম করা v. to break the rule, to violate the rule; to perpetrate an irregularity. 58)

(p. 721) bāgadi a lowly Hindu caste; one of this caste. fem. বাগদিনি । 297)