(p. 872) mukhāgni fire applied to the mouth of the dead at cremation; act of singeing the mouth of the dead at cremation. মুখাগ্নি করা v. to singe the mouth of the dead at cremation. 3)

(p. 847) mahītala the surface of the earth; the ground; the earth. 35)

(p. 831) matalaba intention, purpose, design; a plan, a stratagem, an artifice, a wile. মতলব আঁটা v. to think out a plan, to scheme, to plan. মতলব করা বা ভাঁজা v. to contrive a stratagem; to intend, to design. ̃বাজ, মতলবি a. designing, scheming, artful, crafty, wily; self-devoted. 23)

(p. 872) mudgara a mallet, a club, a cudgel; a rammer; a hammer. 48)

(p. 852) māmuli hackneyed, trite, banal, stock; conventional, traditional, traditionally or conventionally fixed (মামুলি স্বত্ব); most ordinary, negligible, paltry (মামুলি ব্যাপার). 145)

(p. 847) mahala a residence (রাজমহল); a house or building (রংমহল); the self-contained portion or annexe of a building (অন্দরমহল); a taluk or estate (খাসমহল); a society (মেয়েমহল). 19)

(p. 866) mitāśana, mitāhāra temperance in food and drink, abstemiousness. মিতাশী, মিতাহারী a. abstemious, temperate. 4)

(p. 864) māsatutō descended from a sister or a cousin-sister of one's mother or mother-in-law, avuncular, cousinly. মাসতুতো ভাই, মাসতুতো বোন a cousin. 16)

(p. 831) maṭha a monastery or a nunnery, a convent; an abbey; a shrine, a temple; an academy; a sweetmeat made of congealed sugar shaped like a temple. ̃ধারী, মঠাধিকারী, মঠাধ্যক্ষ n. a head of a monastery or convent, an abbot. fem. ̃ধারিণী an abbess. 3)

(p. 839) mandāra (myth.) a celestial tree or its flower; the coral tree. ̃মালিকা n. a wreath or garland of mythological mandar (মন্দার) flowers. 31)

(p. 830) mañca a platform, a dais; a rostrum; a scaffold; the stage or theatre. ̃নির্দেশন, নির্দেশনা n. stage direction. ̃ভাষণ n. a platform speech. ̃শিল্প n. stagecraft; stage play. ̃শিল্পী n. a stage-player; a stage-decorator. ̃সজ্জা n. stage-decoration. মঞ্চস্হ করা v. to stage (a drama), to enact; (rare) to place on a platform. মঞ্চাভিনয় n. stage-acting; acting in a drama. 8)

(p. 844) mala1 a bangle for the ankle. 10)

(p. 872) muḍ়ā2, mōḍ়ā to cover, to wrap; to enclose (খামে চিঠি মোড়া); to fold (বিছানা মোড়া); to double up (হাঁটু মুড়ে বসা); to contort or twist or bend (দেহ মোড়া); to ravel in, to wind round (আঙ্গুলে সুতো মোড়া). 32)

(p. 852) mātāla intoxicated with wine, drunk, drunken; sozzled; addicted to drinking wine esp. to excess; infatuated, beside oneself; saturated. n. a drunk person; a boozer, a drunkard. 61)

(p. 852) māgana begging or praying. 9)