(p. 802) bhartrī a wife; a queen; a mistress; a female maintainer. 89)

(p. 802) bhakti devotion; worship; devoutness, piety; profound admiration; strong attachment or addiction; obedience; trust or faith or reliance; inclination or relish or appetite (খাবারে ভক্তি); earnest pursuit, devotion (পড়াশোনায় ভক্তি). ভক্তি করা v. to be devoted to; to worship; to admire profoundly; to follow faithfully; to have trust or faith (in); to rely; to have inclination or relish or appetite (for); to be earnest (in), to pursue earnestly. ̃গ্রন্হ n. a devotional book. ̃চিহ্ন n. a mark or sign of devotion. ̃তত্ত্ব n. the doctrine or cult of or a treatise on devotion or devoutness or piety. ̃পথ n. devotion (without knowledge or practice) as the only means of attaining salvation, the path of devotionalism. ̃পরায়ণ a. devoted (to); worshipful; devout; strongly attached or addicted (to); having profound admiration (for); reverent; having trust or faith (in), reliant; having inclination or relish or appetite (for); earnest, earnestly pursuing. fem. ̃পরায়ণা । ̃পরায়ণতা n. devotion; worshipfulness; devoutness; strong attachment or addiction; profound admiration; earnestness, earnest pursuit, ̃পূর্বক adv. with devotion; reverentially; with trust or faith or reliance; willingly or with pleasure (ভক্তিপূর্বক খাওয়া বা নেওয়া); earnestly (ভক্তিপূর্বক প়ড়াশোনা করা). ̃প্লুতচিত্ত n. mind steeped in piety. ̃বাদ n. the doctrine holding that salvation is attainable by means of devotion only (without knowledge and practice); devotionalism. ̃বাদী a. devotionistic, devotionalistic. n. a devotionist, a devotionalist. ̃ভরে same as ভক্তিপূর্বক । ̃ভাজন n. a reverend or venerable or adorable person or object. a. reverend; venerable; adorable. ̃ভাব n. devout or worshipful or devoted or reverential disposition of mind. ̃ভাবে adv. devoutly; worshipfully; devotedly; devotionally; reverentially. ̃মান same as ̃পরায়ণ fem. ̃মতী । ̃মার্গ same as ̃পথ । ̃মূলক a. devotional. ̃যোগ n. worship of God or effort to attain beatitude by means of devotion only (irrespective of knowledge or practice). ̃রস n. (rhet.) the sentiment of devotion. ̃শীল same as ̃পরায়ণ । fem. ̃শীলা । ̃শূন্য, ̃হীন a. devoid of devotion or devoutness; irreverent; having no attachment (to); having no trust or faith (in), unreliant; having no inclination or relish or appetite (for); devoid of earnestness or willingness. 5)

(p. 802) bhaka expressing; the noise of sudden emission of smoke, smell etc., or ejection of phlegm. 6)

(p. 813) bhārui the skylark; the quail. 33)

(p. 810) bhābanā thought; cogitation; reflection, contemplation; worry, anxiety; repeated pulverization and purification or rectification of medicines etc.; saturation; infusion. ভাবনা করা, ভাবনায় পড়া v. to worry, to be worried. 43)

(p. 802) bhakṣaka eating; feeding on (বায়ুভক্ষক); (fig.) spoiling or depraving (বুদ্ধিভক্ষক), killing (সন্তানভক্ষক). n. an eater; one who feeds on; (fig.) a spoiler, a vitiator, a killer. যে রক্ষক সেই ভক্ষক lawmakers are law-breakers. 7)

(p. 816) bhāsa1 the vulture; the cock. 2)

(p. 816) bhitti foundation, base; plinth; a wall; basis, ground, cause. ̃প্রস্তর n. the foundation-stone. ̃মূল n. the bottom of a foundation; base; plinth. ভিত্তি স্হাপন করা v. to lay the foundation of. ̃হীন a. groundless, baseless, causeless. 25)

(p. 826) bhyānabhyāna denoting: buzzing noise (of flies, mosquitoes etc.); noise of continuous complaint. 17)

(p. 808) bhāgabata relating to God; divine; reverencing God, God-fearing, devoted to Vishnu (বিষ্ণু) (often affixed to the names of saintly or reverend persons). n. one of the Puranas (পুরাণ). 30)

(p. 818) bhum̐i ground; a place; agricultural land, a field; land (জল থেকে ভুঁইয়ে ওঠা); a country (বিভুঁই) ̃চাঁপা n. a kind of fragrant flower. ভুঁইঞা alt. spell. of ভুঁইয়া । ̃ফোঁড় a. upstart. n. an upstart; a parvenu; mushroom. ̃মালী n. one of the Hindu sweeper community. ̃য়া n. (hist.) any one of the twelve (feudal) princes governing Bengal during the Mughal regime; a landowner. 10)

(p. 823) bhō-n̐dauḍ় a very swift or quick run, a break-neck run. 28)

(p. 808) bhān̐ḍ়āmi, bhān̐ḍ়āmō jesting, foolery, waggery; buffoonery; clownery; drollery; witticism. 26)

(p. 816) bhikṣuṇī a Buddhist mendicant nun; a mendicant nun; a beggar-woman. 15)

(p. 818) bhuka eating, subsisting on (পিপীলিকাভুক). 13)