(p. 7) agrē at first; at the front; at the outset, in the beginning, before, formerly; beforehand; in the presence of, approaching (বিচারকের অগ্রে আবেদন). 21)

(p. 721) basā2 to sit, to take one's seat; to be installed (গদিতে বসা); to be established or founded (গ্রামে গ্রামে স্কুল বসা); to start, to commence (আমাদের স্কুল এগারোটায় বসে); to freeze, to congeal, to solidify (দই বসা); to accumulate or settle (বুকে সর্দি বসা); to fit (মাথায় টুপি বসা); to be imposed or levied (ট্যাকস বসা); to enter (পেরেক বসা); to pierce (ছুরি বসা দাঁত বসা); to stick or to get stuck (কাদায় গাড়ির চাকা বসা); to be imprinted (দাগ বসা); to be soaked (in) (গায়ে জল বসা); to be applied closely, to be attracted (মন বসা); to be wizened, to look haggard (চোখমুখ বসা); to become hoarse (স্বর বসা); to wait (তুমি একটু বসো); to come to stay or reside (প্রজা বা ভাড়াটে বসা); to be engaged in (বিচারে বসা); to do or commit something suddenly (করে বসা, বলে বসা) a. seated; frozen, congealed, solidified; wizened, haggard; hoarsened; sunken; depressed (বসা জমি); requiring much sitting, sedentary বসা কাজ); unemployed (তার সব ছেলেই বসা). বসানো v. to cause to sit, to seat; to establish or found; to cause to congeal, to congeal, to freeze, to solidify; to impose or levy; to drive into, to enter; to pierce with; to imprint; to cause to be soaked (in); to apply closely; to cause to stay or reside; to engage; to set or stud with, to inlay (আংটিতে পাথর বসানো); to place or put (উনুনে হাঁড়ি বসানো); to implant, to deal (চড় বসানো). একেবারে মায়ের মুখ বসানো to be the image of one's mother. বসার ঘর a sitting room; a drawing room. বসে থাকা v. to be sitting; to remain sitting; to wait (for); to be unemployed; to be without work; to pass time in laziness, to laze. বসে পড়া v. to sit down; to be utterly disappointed (ফেল করে সে বসে পড়ল); to be ruined utterly (মামলায় হেরে সে বসে পড়ল). বসে বসে adv. by waiting for a long time (বসে বসে বেলা গেল); in an unemployed state, doing nothing; idly (বসে বসে খাওয়া). বসে যাওয়া v. (of land etc.) to sink, to become depressed; to be ruined; to desist or rest (আর খেলিস না-বসে যা); to stop (বাধা পড়েছে-বসে যাও). 180)

(p. 765) bibhāga division; partition: apportionment; distribution; a division (of a country etc.); a part, a portion, a section; department (বিচারবিভাগ). বিভাগ করা v. to divide; to partition; to apportion; to distribute. বিভাগী a. fissile. বিভাগী-ছত্রাক n. a fission fungus. বিভাগীশৈবাল n. a fission alga. বিভাগীয় a. divisional, sectional; departmental (বিভাগীয় কর্তা = the departmental head, বিভাগীয় বিপণি = a departmental store). 35)

(p. 980) sabhā an assembly, a council; a committee; an association, a society, a club, a community (ব্রাহ্মণসভা); a conference, a meeting, an assemblage; an audiencechamber, a durbar (রাজসভা); a court (বিচারসভা). সভা করা v. to hold a meeting; to hold a court or durbar; to sit in a court or durbar. সভা চলছে v. the meeting is in progress, the meeting is under way. সভা ডাকা v. to convene a meeting. সভা বসছে v. the meeting has commenced; the court has sat. সভা ভাঙল v. the meeting breaks up or ends; the court rises. বনিকসভা n. a chamber of commerce. রাজ্যসভা n. a legislative assembly; the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. লোকসভা n. a parliament; the Indian Parliament (the House of the People or the Lower House or Chamber). ̃কক্ষ n. an assembly hall; a council-room; a meeting room; a committee-room. ̃কবি n. a court poet. ̃গৃহ same as সভাকক্ষ and সভাভবন । ̃জন n. a member of an assembly, council, court, association etc. or of the audience of a meeting; a courtier. ̃তল n. the venue or place of a meeting; the floor of an assembly house or hall (esp. of a legislative assembly). ̃নেত্রী n. fem. a woman president or chairperson of a meeting, assembly, association etc. ̃পন্ডিত n. a Brahman scholar retained in a court, a court-pundit; a courtscholar. ̃পতি n. a president or chairman of a meeting, association etc.; the chairman of a legislative council; the speaker of a legislative assembly. ̃পতিত্ব n. presidentship, presidency; chairmanship; speakership. ̃পতিত্ব করা v. to preside (over). ̃ভঙ্গ n. the breakup or dissolution of a meeting; the rising of a court. n. ̃ভবন an assembly house, a council house; an association hall, a society house; a court house. ̃রম্ভ n. commencement of a meeting. ̃সদ n. a member of an assembly, council, committee, conference etc; a courtier; (law) an assessor. ̃সমিতি n. meetings and associations (collectively). ̃সীন a. sitting or seated at a meeting or in a court. ̃স্হল same as ̃তল । 74)