(p. 1) aṃśu ray, a narrow beam of light (from a small or distant source). ̃ক n. fine cotton fabric; silk cloth. ̃মান, ̃মতী a. luminous; radiant. ̃মালা n. a stream of rays. ̃মালী n. the sun; the sun-god. ̃ল a. having rays; full of rays; radiant. 15)

(p. 9) acapala not bustling or fickle or playful or wanton; steady; firm; demure. 39)

(p. 9) ajihba having no tongue, tongueless. n. a frog. 101)

(p. 9) ati too; over; beyond; improperly; going beyond; excessively; beyond the compass or range (of), outside. a. very improper or unbecoming; excessive; excellent (অতি নাগর). n. an improper or excessive amount (কিছুরই অতি ভালো নয়) pfx. ex-, extra-, hyper-, out-, over-, super-, sur-, trans-, ultra-. ̃কথা n. exaggerated or useless talk; a myth. ̃কায় a. of immense size; gigantic. ̃কোমল a. too soft, too tender; very tender or soft. ̃চার n. quick passage (from one place to another); passage or forward movement of a planet from one zodiacal sign to another in a shorter period than usual. ̃চালাক a. over-clever, too clever by half; oversmart. ̃চালাকের গলায় দড়ি an over-clever person hangs himself; the fox must pay his skin to the furrier. ̃জন n. the majority. ̃তপ্ত a. superheated. ̃তর a. very much excessive. ̃দর্প n. excessive pride or vanity. ̃দর্পে হতা (বা হত) লন্কা (lit.) the fall of Lanka was caused by (King Ravana's) excessive vanity; (fig.) pride will have a fall. ̃নাটকীয় a. melodramatic; unnecessarily over-dramatic. ̃নাটকীয়তা n. melodrama. ̃দূর a. far-away; remote. n. a great distance. ̃দৈন্য n. utmost poverty. ̃নৈতিকতা n. puritanism, rigid adherence to moral principle or behaviour. ̃পাতক n. any of the most heinous sins, a deadly sin. ̃পাতকী n. a great sinner. ̃পান n. (habitual) overindulgence in intoxicating liquor, intemperance. ̃প্রজতা n. overpopulation. ̃প্রাকৃত a. supernatural; supernal. ̃বড় a. too big; too much. ̃বল a. extremely strong or mighty. ̃বাড় n. overgrowth; unnatural growth or development; excessive haughtiness or pride; extreme immoderation or excess. ̃বাড় বাড়া v. to grow extremely haughty or arrogant. অতিবাড় বেড়ো নাকো ঝড়ে প়ড়ে যাবে (lit.) don't grow too high lest a storm makes you tumble down; (fig.) pride will have a fall. ̃বাদ n. exaggeration. ̃বুদ্ধি same as অতিচালাক । ̃বৃদ্ধ a. very old; decrepit. ̃বৃদ্ধি n. overgrowth. ̃বৃষ্টি n. excessive or heavy rainfall. ̃বেগনি, ̃বেগুনি a. ultraviolet. ̃ব্যয় n. extravagance. ̃ব্যস্ত a. (usu. dero.) very busy; very anxious; fussy. ̃ভক্তি n. excessive devotion or reverence (usu. insincere). অতিভক্তি চোরের লক্ষণ too much courtesy, too much craft. ̃ভুজ a. (geom.) a hypotenuse. ̃ভোজন n. over-eating, surfeit; gluttony. অতিভোজন করা v. to overeat; to gourmandize, to gormandise. ̃ভোজী a. voracious, gourmand. n. a gourmand, a glutton. ̃মন্দা n. (comm.) slump. ̃মাত্র, ̃মাত্রায় adv. beyond measure; extremely. ̃মান n. excessive vanity. ̃মানব n. a great man or a man of exceptional uqalities and powers, a superman; a greatly wise man. ̃মানবিক, ̃মানুষিক a. superhuman; supernal; spiritual; divine. ̃রঞ্জন n. exaggeration. ̃রঞ্জিত a. exaggerated. ̃রথ n. a great warrior capable of fighting innumerable enemies simultaneously. ̃রাষ্ট্রিক a. extra-territorial. ̃লোভ n. too much greed, overgreediness. 145)

(p. 16) atyāśana over-cating; gluttony. 17)

(p. 16) atyāścarya most astonishing; very wonderful; amazing; miraculous. 24)

(p. 17) adbhuta strange, queer, quaint, odd; uncouth; extraordinary; astonishing. n. (rhet.) a description that strikes the reader with its extraordinary strangeness or queerness (also অদ্ভুতরস). ̃কর্মা a. endowed with extraordinary capabilities; one who is capable of performing miraculous deeds. ̃দর্শন a. odd-looking. 41)

(p. 30) anudātta not loud-voiced; low and grave-toned. (cp.) bass. n. low and grave tone, bass; a Vedic hymn or incantation. 58)

(p. 30) anunāsika speaking through the nose; nasal. n. (gr.) a nasal sound or a letter representing this sound (e.g. ঙ্, ঞ্, ণ্, ন্, ম্, ং,). অনুনাসিক সুরে in a nasal tone or voice. 86)

(p. 50) apragalbha not proud or haughty or untowardly; polite, modest; not brazenfaced or shameless, not saucy or pert; coy; not garrulous; tongue-shy. 14)

(p. 56) abāka stunned or made speechless with amazement, stupefied, dumbfounded; amazed, astonished; amazing, astonishing; stupefying, dumbfounding. ̃-জলপান a kind of savoury snack. অবাক হওয়া v. to wonder, to be struck dumb. অবাক কাণ্ড n. wonderful or strange event. 53)

(p. 56) abismaẏa absence of astonishment. অবিস্মিত a. not astonished or surprised, not taken by surprise. 132)

(p. 71) amita unmeasured; immeasurable; unlimited, boundless; excessive, too much, immense; intemperate, immoderate. ̃তেজা a. immensely spirited or powerful. ̃বল a. immensely powerful. ̃ব্যয় n. extravagance, wasteful expenditure. ̃ব্যয়িতা n. extravagance, prodigality. ̃ব্যয়ী a. extravagant, prodigal, lavish in expenditure. ̃ব্যয়ী লোক n. spendthrift. ̃ভাষী a. excessively talkative or garrulous; unrestrained in speech, free-spoken. ̃ভোজন n. intemperance in eating, overeating; surfeit. ̃ভোজী a. given to excessive or intemperate eating; garrulous. n. a glutton, a guzzler, a gourmand. 13)

(p. 75) arthāpatti (log.) a circumstantial source of proof, a kind of inference; presumption; (rhet.) a figure of speech akin to metonymy. 35)

(p. 80) aśōka free from grief. n. a kind of flower or its tree, the flamboyant; the great Maurya emperor of India. ̃কানন n. a flamboyant-grove (esp. one in which Sita in the Ramayana was kept as a captive). ̃চক্র n. the symbolic wheel introduced by King Ashoka illustrating the stages of birth prior to salvation (it is the emblem of the official flag of India). ̃বন n. same as ̃কানন । ̃লিপি n. any of the religious and moral edicts of Ashoka inscribed on stone-pillars, an inscription of Ashoka. ̃স্তম্ভ n. any of the stone-pillars of Ashoka on which his edicts are inscribed, an Ashoka pillar (it is the official emblem of India). 38)

(p. 83) aśma stone, rock, bitumen; fossil. ̃পুশ্প n. benzoin. ̃মণ্ডল n. (geol.) lithosphere. ̃ময়, ̃র a. full of stones or rocks, rocky. ̃রী n. (path.) concretion. অশ্মীভবন n. fossilization. অশ্মীভূত a. fossilized. অশ্মীভূত হওয়া v. to fossilize. 5)

(p. 83) aślīla obscene; abominable; indecent; lascivious, wanton, অশ্লীল বাক্য obscene or filthy words or talk; bawdy talk. অশ্লীল সাহিত্য obscene or blue literature, pornography. ̃তা n. obscenity; abomination; indecency; lasciviousness, wantonness. ̃ভাষী a. & n. one who indulges in obscene or bawdy talk. 15)

(p. 85) asaṃyama lack of self-control; wantonness; sensual indulgence, sensualism, incontinence; lack of restraint; intemperance. অসংযমী a. lacking in self-control; abandoned; indulging in sensual enjoyment, sensual, incontinent; lacking in restraint; intemperate. 9)

(p. 88) asambhaba impossible; unlikely, improbable; absurd; uncommon and astonishing. n. an impossible or uncommon incident, the impossible. ̃পর a. same as অসম্ভব (a.). 11)

(p. 90) asphuṭa unbloomed; inarticulate (অস্ফুট বুলি) unexpressed, unrevealed; indistinct (অস্ফুট রেখা) obscure, translucent (অস্ফুট আলোক); low and indistinct (অস্ফুট কন্ঠ); undertoned (অস্ফুট স্বর). ̃কণ্ঠে adv. in an undertone; whisperingly. ̃বাক a. of inarticulate speech, babbling, mumbling. 71)

(p. 90) ashi bone; skeleton. ̃চর্মসার a. lean, skinny, skin-and-bone, gaunt. অস্হি দেওয়া v. to deposit in or commit to the Ganges (or other holy waters) the bone or bone-ash of a deceased person (as the final part of the obsequies). ̃পঞ্জর n. bones and ribs; skeleton. ̃বত্ a. bone-like, bony. ̃বিজ্ঞান, ̃বিদ্যা n. osteology. ̃বিজ্ঞানী n. an osteologist. ̃বিদ্যাগত a. osteological. ̃সার a. having little flesh; bony, lean, gaunt. 55)

(p. 73) aẏaskānta magnet; loadstone. 32)

(p. 97) ān̐ṭi2 the stone of a fruit. 14)

(p. 98) ākarṣa attraction; pull; any object by which something is drawn or pulled; magnet; a tendril. আকর্ষক, আকর্ষিক, আকর্ষী a. that which attracts or draws or pulls. n. lodestone. 22)

(p. 107) ādha, ādhā & a. half. আধকপালি, আধকপালে n. hemicrania, migraine, megrim. আধখেঁচড়া a. half-done; done perfunctorily; disordered; bungled. আধথালা a. half-plate. আধপাকা a. halfripe; partly ripe. আধপাগলা a. crack-brained, cranky, having a screw loose, mentally defective, crazy. n. one with a screw loose, a crack-brain, a crank. আধপেটা a. sufficient to satisfy only half the hunger; half-fed. adv. to the extent of being half-fed. আধপোড়া a. half-burned; half-roasted; halfbaked. আধবয়সী, আধবুড়ো a. middleaged. fem. আধবুড়ি । আধমনি a. containing half a maund (of things). আধমনি কৈলাস a gluttonous person, one who eats too much; one who is capable of eating too much. আধমরা a. half-dead; almost dead, more dead than alive. আধসিদ্ধ a. parboiled. আধসের n. (now obs.) half a seer. আধহাতি a. half a cubit long. 90)