(p. 828) maktaba a Muslim primary school. 19)

(p. 844) maśaka2 the mosquito. ̃দংশন n. mosquito-bite. ̃সংকুল a. mosquito-infested. 27)

(p. 852) mākṣika relating to bees or flies. n. honey; pyrites (স্বর্ণমাক্ষিক). 5)

(p. 874) mudraṇa printing; stamping; impression. মুদ্রণ করা v. to print; to stamp; to impress. মুদ্রণ নিবন্ধ press register. মুদ্রণনিবন্ধক n. press registrar. ̃প্রমাদ n. printing mistake. মুদ্রণ-শোধক n. press corrector, proof-reader. মুদ্রণ-শোধন n. press correction, proof-reading. মুদ্রণীয় a. printable, worth printing. 3)

(p. 886) myājisiẏāna a magician. 8)

(p. 852) mātṛ (in comp.) mother. ̃ক a. maternal; motherly; treated or fostered as by one's mother, mothered (নদীমাতৃক দেশ). ̃কল্প same as ̃তুল্য । ̃কা n. any one of a group of sixteen female deities; mother; one's mother's mother; a nurse; any one of the alphabetical letters; a matron. ̃কুল n. the mother's line, the distaff side. ̃গণ n. the eight divine female powers. ̃ঘাতক, ̃ঘাতী a. guilty of or relating to matricide, matricidal. ̃তুল্য, ̃তুল্যা a. deserving to be treated as one's mother; behaving as one's mother; motherly. ̃দায় n. the responsibility of performing the obsequies of one's deceased mother; (loos.) one's mother's death. ̃দায়গ্রস্হ a. charged with the onus of performing the obsequies of one's deceased mother; (loos.) in mourning for one's lately deceased mother. ̃দুগ্ধ n. mother's milk. ̃পক্ষ same as ̃কুল । ̃পূজা n. act of serving or adoring one's mother. ̃বত্ adv. (also a.) like one's mother. মাতৃবত্ পরদারেষু one should look upon another's wife as one's mother. ̃বিয়োগ n. mother's death. ̃ভক্ত a. devoted or deeply attached to one's mother. ̃ভক্তি n. devotion to one's mother. ̃ভাষা n. mother-tongue; vernacular. ̃ভূমি n. motherland, native land, mother-country. ̃রিষ্টি n. an inauspicious conjunction of planets in one's horoscope foreboding danger to one's mother's life. ̃শাসন n. matriarchy. ̃শাসিত a. matriarchal. ̃শ্রাদ্ধ n. the obsequies of one's deceased mother. ̃ষ্বসা same as মাতুঃষ্বসা । ̃ষ্বস্রীয়, ̃ষ্বস্রেয় n. a son of one's mother's sister or cousin-sister. ̃ষ্বস্রয়া, ̃ষ্বস্রেয়া a daughter of one's mother's sister or cousin-sister. ̃সম, ̃সমা same as ̃তুল্য । ̃সেবা same as ̃পূজা । ̃স্তন্য n. mother's milk. ̃স্তব, ̃স্তোত্র n. a hymn or incantation of the sublime female energy associated with the work of creation; a hymn or incantation of any female deity; a devotional hymn offered to one's mother. ̃হত্যা n. matricide. ̃হত্যাকারী same as ̃ঘাতক । fem. ̃হত্যাকারিণী । ̃হন্তা n. a matricide. fem. ̃হন্ত্রী । ̃হীন a. motherless. fem. ̃হীনা । 64)

(p. 831) madra the ancient name of the Punjab and some adjoining districts. 43)

(p. 843) martamāna a variety of banana originally grown in Martaban. 19)

(p. 864) māṣa2, māṣā a unit of weight for jewellers (= 18 or 15 grs.) or for apothecaries (9 grs. approx.). 13)

(p. 828) magaḍāla the topmost branch of a tree. 25)

(p. 838) manōgata seated in the mind or at heart, inward. মনোগত ভাব intention. 9)

(p. 862) mārā to kill; to strike, to hit (বল মারা); to beat, to flog; to drive in, to pierce (ছুরি মারা = to stab); to strike with (চাবুক মারা); to deal (ঘুসি মারা = to deal one a blow); to afflict or distress (কথায় মারা); to ruin (চুরিটায় আমাকে মেরেছে); to destroy, to exterminate, to eradicate (বিষ মারা); to dry or dehydrate (রস মারা); to implant, to drive in (পেরেক মারা); to affix (টিকিট মারা); to sew up (তালি মারা); to paste (লেবেল মারা); to close up, to fill up (ফাঁক মারা); to rob, to pick (পকেট মারা); to obtain by unfair means, to misappropriate, to defalcate (টাকা মারা); to win or earn esp. by a fluke (লটারি মারা); to deprive of (অন্ন মারা, রুজি মারা); to cause to lose (জাত মারা); (inf.) to eat or gobble (ভাত মারা); to shout (হাঁক মারা); to give out, to emit (জেল্লা মারা); to block, to obstruct (পথ মারা); to blunt, to dull (ধার মারা, কোণ মারা); to tuck (মালকোঁচা মারা); (inf.) to score (গোল মারা); to adopt, to have recourse to, to exhibit (চাল মারা). চাল মারা see চাল3 । মারা পড়া, মারা যাওয়া v. to be killed; to die; to be lost (বহু টাকা মারা গেছে) । 2)

(p. 876) mūrti a body; an incarnation; an embodiment; an image; a form, a shape, a figure, an appearance. মূর্তি ধারণ করা, মূর্তি পরিগ্রহ করা v. to assume a material body or form; to be incarnated; to assume a particular appearance; to personate. ̃পূজক n. an idolator (fem. an idolatress), an imageworshipper. ̃পূজা n. idolatry, imageworship. ̃মান, (loos.) ̃মন্ত a. embodied; incarnate; personized; personified; manifest, visible; (dero.) downright or mischievous. fem. ̃মতী । মূর্তিমান শয়তান the very embodiment of devil or satan. 10)

(p. 865) mijarāba a kind of thimble (made of wire) used by instrumentalists, (cp.) plectrum. 5)

(p. 863) mālapōẏā, mālapō a saucer-shaped sweetmeat made of flour or rice-powder fried in ghee or oil and then (sometimes) dipped in sugarjuice. 10)