(p. 41) andha blind, sightless; extremely dark or gloomy. ('অন্ধ তামস'); utterly ignorant. n. a blind person. ̃কূপ n. a dark pit; a black hole. ̃কূপহত্যা n. (hist.) the Blackhole Tragedy. ̃তম a. darkest; extremely dark. ̃তমস n. utter darkness; blinding darkness. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. blindness; utter ignorance. ̃তামিস্র n. utter darkness. a. utterly dark. ̃প্রায় a. almost blind; like a blind; like a blind person. ̃বিশ্বাস n. blind faith. ̃ভাবে adv. blindly; rashly; heedlessly, indiscreetly. অন্ধের কিবা দিন কিবা রাত a blind person cannot distinguish between day and night or between brightness and gloom. অন্ধের নড়ি বা যষ্টি (lit.) a stick by the help of which a blind person moves; a blind man's prop; (fig.) a prop for a helpless or incapable person. 14)

(p. 102) āguna fire. আগুন ধরা বা লাগা v. to take or catch fire. আগুন ধরানো বা লাগানো v. to set fire to. আগুন হওয়া v. to become inflamed; (fig.) to be heated or enraged. কপালে আগুন (fig.) extremely unfortunate, wretched; extremely scarce (মাছের কপালে আগুন). পেটে আগুন intolerable hunger. (তার) মুখে আগুন (in imprecation) may the Devil take (him). রেগে আগুন burning with rage, in a towering rage, furiously angry. 3)

(p. 125) ārāba a (high) sound or note; a (great) noise; tumult; a roar. 8)

(p. 208) kaṣā2 astringent; tight; strict, severe; niggardly, close-fisted; constipative (কষা ধাত); (of meat, fish etc.) signed in oil or fat and with spices. v. to try (gold etc.) on a streak-plate; to work out (a mathematical sum); to calculate (price etc.); to singe (meat, fish etc.) in oil or fat and with spices; to tighten; to bind tightly; to tan (hides); to make astringent. ̃কষি n. unswerving enforcement of rule, law etc; rigour, strictness; act of tightening; tugging and counter-tugging; higgling (দরকষাকষি); strained state, estrangement (মনকষাকষি). কষাকষি করা v. to enforce strictness or rigour; to tighten; to contest or try laboriously. দর কষাকষি করা v. to higgle, to chaffer. মন কষাকষি করা v. to estrange oneself (from); to quarrel (with). কষানো v. to singe meat; to tan (hides). কষাটে a. slightly astringent; (fig.) divested of taste or flavour; (fig.) loathsome, disgusting. কষা মাংস n. singed meat; meat cooked with oil and spices. 106)

(p. 232) kālāpāhāḍ় (hist.) a Brahmin who after embracing Islam was turned into a notorious iconoclast; (fig.) an awful religious renegade, a decrier of current beliefs, a turbulent heretic. কালাপাহাড়ি a. of or like an awful religious renegade or a decrier of current beliefs; heretical. n. iconoclasm; heresy. 9)

(p. 327) grāma a hamlet, a village; a small settlement; (as a sfx.) a collection (গুণগ্রাম, স্বরগ্রাম); (mus.) a scale (উচ্চগ্রাম). ̃খরচা same as গ্রামভাটি । ̃জ, ̃জাত a. produced in a village, rural. ̃ণী n. (hist.) a village headman. ̃ধর্ম n. sexual intercourse (esp. with one's wife). ̃বাসী n. a villager, a village-dweller. ̃ভাটি n. a monetary contribution to be given for village welfare at the time of wedding etc. ̃মৃগ n. a (village) dog. ̃সম্পর্ক, ̃সুবাদ n. the relation that arises owing to living in the same village. ̃সম্পর্কীয় a. rural; pertaining to co-villagers. ̃স্হ a. of or in or living in a village; rural. 18)

(p. 407) jēlā a district; a county; a shire. ̃দার n. (hist.) the administrator of a district. ̃শাসক n. the district magistrate. 2)

(p. 485) daśa ten; (fig.) the people, the public (দেশ ও দশ, দশের কাজ); (fig.) several persons united into a body (দশে মিলি করি কাজ). a. ten; many, several (দশ কথা শোনান, এক কথা দশবার শোনানো). দশই n. the tenth day of a month. a. (of the days of a month) tenth. দশক n. (arith.) the place of tens; a decade. ̃কথা n. many words; much talking; many rude words, much scolding. ̃কর্ম n. the ten Hindu sacraments. ̃কর্মান্বিত a. one who takes or has taken the ten Hindu sacraments. ̃কাহন n. ten kahans (কাহন); many words; much talking; exaggeration; many rude words, much scolding. ̃কিয়া n. a table of numeration by multiple of ten. ̃কোষী, (dial.) ̃কুশি n. a measure of kirtan (কীর্তন) songs. ̃গুন a. & adv. ten times. ˜চক্র n. a plot or intrigue or bad counsel by ten or many persons. দশচক্রে ভগবান ভূত (fig.) even a very intelligent man may be discomfited or cornered or pushed to the wall or endangered by the intrigue or bad counsel of the many. ̃তলক n. a decahedron. ̃দশা see ̃দশা । ̃দিক see দিক । ̃নামী n. ten religious communities obeying the doctrines of Shankaracharya. ̃পঁচিশ n. an indoor game like dice played with cowries (কড়ি). ̃প্রহরণধারিণী a. fem. (also used as n.) holding ten weapons esp. in ten hands (an epithet of Goddess Durga). ̃বল see বল । ̃বিধ a. of ten kinds or varieties. ̃বিধ সংস্কার the ten Hindu sacraments. ̃ভুজ (বা দশকোণী) ক্ষেত্র n. a decagon. ̃ভুজা a. fem. (also used as n.) ten-handed (an epithet of Goddess Durga). দশম a. tenth. ̃মহাবিদ্যা see মহাবিদ্যা । দশমাংশ, দশাংশ n. a tenth; the tenth part. ̃মাবতার n. (kalki) (কল্কি) the tenth and last incarnation of Vishnu (বিষ্ণু). ̃মিক a. (arith.) decimal (দশমিক ভগ্নাংশ). n. (arith.) decimal fraction. দশমিক পদ্ধতি decimal system. দশমিক-মুদ্রা প্রথা decimal system of coinage. দশমিকমুদ্রা প্রথা চালু করা বা হওয়া to go decimal. দশমী n. the tenth day of a lunar fortnight. ̃মূল see মূল । ̃রথ n. one whose chariot can fly in all ten directions; Ramachandra's father (in the Ramayana). ̃শত n. & a. thousand. ˜সহস্র n. & a. ten thousand, myriad. ˜সালা a. decennial. দশসালা বন্দোবস্ত (hist.) the decennial settlement (of land). ̃স্কন্ধ a. ten-necked. ̃হারা n. the tenth day of the lunar fortnight of the month of Jaistha (জ্যৈষ্ঠ); the date of the descent of the Ganges upon earth; on this date a bath in the Ganges relieves one of ten kinds of sin. ̃হাত n. ten cubits. a. measuring ten cubits; (fig.) very much expanded or puffed up (বুক ফুলে দশ হাত). ̃হাতি a. measuring ten cubits; (of cloth) having the standard length (=1 cubits). 72)

(p. 555) nabya new, novel; recent; modern; young. ̃বঙ্গ n. (hist.) Young Bengal. ̃ভারত n. new or modern India. 25)

(p. 554) naba2 nine. a. ninth. ̃গুণ same as নবলক্ষণ । ̃গ্রহ n. (astr. & astrol.) the nine planets (collectively), namely the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, the Dragon's head or ascending node, and the Dragon's tail or descending node. ˜চত্বারিংশ a. forty-nine. ̃চত্বারিংশত্ n. & a. forty-nine. ˜চত্বারিংশত্তম a. forty-ninth. fem. ̃চত্বারিংশত্তমী।i ̃দুর্গা n. the nine manifestations collectively of Goddess Durga (দুর্গা). ̃দ্বার n. nine vents or inlets or outlets in the human body. ̃ধা a. nine times, ninefold; of nine kinds. adv. by nine times; in nine ways. ̃নবতি n. & a. ninty-nine. ˜নবতিতম a. ninety-ninth. fem. ̃নবতিতমী । ̃পত্রিকা n. the image of a female deity formed with leaves of nine plants. ̃বিংশতি n. & a. twenty-nine. fem. ˜বিংশতিতমী । ̃রত্ন n. the nine most precious gems, namely, pearl, ruby, chrysoberyl or cat's eye, zircon or jacinth, diamond, (red) coral, beryl, emerald, and sapphire; (hist.) the nine courtiers of King Vikramaditya famous for their learning, wisdom and mastery in arts and letters. ̃রত্নসভা n. the court of King Vikramaditya consisting of the aforesaid nine courtiers. ̃রস n. the nine poetical flavours or reactions, namely love, heroism, pathos, amazement, anger, fright, comicality, disgust and quietude. ̃শায়ক, (coll.) ̃শাক, (coll.) ̃শাখ n. the spicedealer, the garland-maker, the weaver, the milkman, the barber, the grower of betel-leaves, the black-smith, the potter and the confectioner: these nine Hindu communities collectively. 9)

(p. 706) phauja an army. আজাদ হিন্দ ফৌজ (hist.) the Indian National Army. ̃দার n. an army commander; a commissioner of police; an officer-in-charge of the police; a district magistrate or a divisional commissioner; a provincial governor. ̃দারি a. criminal. n. a criminal lawsuit or case. ফৌজদারি আদালত a criminal court. ফৌজি a. military. 115)

(p. 721) bandōbasta arrangement; preparation; provision; settlement; land settlement; tenure (জমির বন্দোবস্ত); a contract. বন্দোবস্ত করা n. to make arrangements; to make preparations (for); to provide for; to settle; to make a contract (with). বন্দোবস্ত দেওয়া v. to have tenure (of land etc.) settled on oneself. চিরস্হায়ী বন্দোবস্ত (hist.) The Permanent Settlement. 4)

(p. 721) bargi (hist.) the Maratha cavalry notorious for their free-booting inroads. 82)

(p. 737) bāgha the tiger; (loos.) the panther, the leopard. fem. বাঘিনি the tigress. বাঘে গোরুতে এক ঘাটে জল খাওয়া (fig.) a very powerful administration under which even traditional antagonists behave as friends. বাঘের ঘরে ঘোগের বাসা (lit.) a tiger-wolf taking-up its abode in a tiger's lair; (fig.) a weakling settling in the lair of its deadly enemy. বাঘের বাচ্ছা a tiger's cub. বাঘের মাসি the cat. ̃ছড়ি, ̃ছাল n. the skin of a tiger. ̃নখ n. a tiger's nail; an ornamental pendant for the neck; an aromatic substance; (hist.) a nail-like weapon worn by Shivaji as handgloves. ̃বল্দি n. an indoor game akin to fox and geese. বাঘা n. (dero.) the tiger, a tigerling (গোবাঘা); (affec.) a traditional name of a dog. a. very large (বাঘা মাছ); very powerful (বাঘা শাসন); very efficient (বাঘা কেরানি, বাঘা খেলোয়াড়); extremely sour (বাঘা তেঁতুল); commanding submission from others, very imposing (বাঘা লোক). বাঘাম্বর n. a piece of tiger's skin worn as loincloth. 15)

(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. 820) bhūmi the earth; the surface of the earth; soil; ground; floor; agricultural land, land, a field, a place, a site (রণভূমি): a country (জন্মভূমি); a repertory or receptacle (বিশ্বাসভূমি); (geom.) a base. ̃কম্প, ̃খন্ড, ̃গর্ভ same as ভূকম্প, ভূখণ্ড and ভূগর্ভ respectively (see ̃ভূ). ̃গ্রহ n. land acquisition. ভূমিগ্রহ-আধিকারিক n. land acquisition officer. ভূমিগ্রহ-সমাহর্তা n. a Land Acquisition Collector. ̃জ a. grown out of the earth; earth-born; holding tenancy of land in lieu of menial services. ভূমিজ প্রজা (hist.) a villein. ̃তল n. the surface of the earth; ground; floor. ̃দান n. a grant of land. ̃রাজস্ব n. land revenue. ̃রেখা n. base line. ̃লেখা n. land records. ̃শয্যা, ̃শায়িত, ̃শায়ী same as ভূশয্যা, ভূশায়িত and ভূশায়ী respectively (see ভূ). ভূমিষ্ঠ হওয়া v. to fall to the ground; to prostrate oneself on the ground (ভূমিষ্ঠ হয়ে প্রণাম); to be born. ̃সাত্ a. fallen to the ground; razed to the ground. ভূমিসাত্ করা v. to pull down to the ground; to raze to the ground. ভূমিসাত্ হওয়া v. to fall to the ground; to be razed to the ground. ̃সুত n. the Mars. ̃স্হ, ̃স্হিত a. lying or situated on the ground. 15)

(p. 831) manasabadāra (hist.) one of a class of army commanders serving in lieu of a jaghir. মনসবদারি n. office of the aforesaid arny commanders. 70)

(p. 846) mastaka (high. & for.) the head; the cranium, the skull, the brain; the top, the summit, the crest (হিমালয়ের মস্তক); the topmost or foremost position (মন্ত্রিসভার মস্তকে ছিলেন জওহরলাল). মস্তক ছেদন করা v. to decapitate, to behead; to truncate. ̃চ্যুত a. fallen from or slipped off the head or top. ̃বিশিষ্ট a. having a head, cephalous; headed (বহুমস্তকবিশিষ্ট = hydraheaded). ̃ব্যবচ্ছেদ n. cephalotomy. ̃সংক্রান্ত a. cephalic. ̃হীন, ̃শূন্য a. headless; acephalous; truncated. ̃শূল n. headache, migraine. মস্তকাবরণ n. a covering for the head; a head-dress; a turban; a helmet; a cap; a veil. মস্তকাভরণ n. an ornament for the head. মস্তকোপরি adv. on or over the head. মস্তকোর্ধ্বে adv. over the head, overhead.

(p. 903) ratha a chariot; the chariot of Jagannatha; the festival of Jagannatha going in a chariot for a sea-bath; a car, a carriage, a vehicle. রথ টানা v. to draw the chariot of Jagannatha (by his devotees on the occasion of his going for a sea-bath). রথ দেখা ও কলা বেচা (fig.) to kill two birds with one stone. রথের মেলা a fair held on the occasion of the festival of Jagannatha going in a chariot for a sea-bath. ̃চক্র n. a wheel of a chariot or (rare) of a carriage. ̃চালক, ̃বাহক n. a charioteer; (rare) a car-driver, a carman. ̃যাত্রা n. the Hindu festival of Jagannatha going in a chariot for a sea-bath. রথাঙ্গ same as ̃চক্র । রথারূঢ় a. riding in or mounted on a chariot or any vehicle; charioted. fem. রথারূঢ়া । রথারোহন করা v. to board a chariot or any vehicle. রথারোহী a. riding in a chariot or any vehicle. n. a charioteer; a rider or passenger of any vehicle. fem. রথারোহিণী । রথী n. a charioteer; (hist.) a famous hero who fights riding in a chariot; a (famous or valorous) warrior; (fig.) a hero. 10)

(p. 1035) sbadēśa homeland, home, mother-country, motherland, native land. ̃ত্যাগ n. act of leaving one's native land, emigration; migration. ̃ত্যাগী a. one who has left one's native land; emigrating; migrating. n. such a person; an emigrant or a migrator. fem. ̃ত্যাগিনী । ̃দ্রোহ n. hostility to or revolt against one's native land. ̃দ্রোহী n. & a. hostile to or rebellious against one's native land. fem. ˜দ্রোহিণী । ̃প্রেম, ̃ভক্তি n. patriotism. ̃প্রেমিক, ̃প্রেমী, ̃ভক্ত n. a patriot. a. patriotic. ̃সেবক n. a servant or devotee of one's native land. ̃সেবা n. service of or devotion to one's native land. ̃হিতৈষণা n. desire of doing good to one's native land. ̃হিতৈষী a. desirous of doing good to one's native land. n. such a person. fem. ̃হিতৈষণী । স্বদেশানুরাগ n. attachment to one's native land; patriotism. ̃স্বদেশানুরাগী a. attached to one's native land; patriotic. fem. স্বদেশানুরাগিণী । স্বদেশী a. of or made in one's native land; home-made, indigenous. n. (hist.) an Indian national movement favouring home industries and boycott of foreign goods, Swadeshi (also স্বদেশী আন্দোলন). স্বদেশী করা v. to participate in Swadeshi, স্বদেশী শিল্প home industry. স্বদেশীয় a. of or born in or made in one's native land. 32)