(p. 126) ālā3 illuminated; brightened up. n. light ('আলার ভিতরে কালাটি'). 50)

(p. 96) āṇṭā a ring; a ring-like handle. 10)

(p. 133) āhira a member of the cowherd class; a cowherd. fem. আহিরি, আহিরিনি । 51)

(p. 97) ān̐dhāra darkness, gloom; absence of light. a. dark, gloomy; deprived of light. আঁধার ঘরের মানিক an object of precious hope and consolation amidst utter misery; silver-lining. মনের আঁধার ignorance; extreme sorrow or dejection. আঁধারি same as আঁধার । 26)

(p. 123) āẏā a nurse-maid or waiting-maid, an ayah. 13)

(p. 126) āśaṃsana, āśaṃsā hoping, expectation; a hope, an expectation; desiring; a desire; possibility, prospect; praise, reception. আশংসিত a. hoped for; expected; desired; praised; received. 104)

(p. 107) ātmārāma the soul; life; the mind; life as imagined as a bird enclosed by the prison of a body; a term of endearment with which a pet parrot, or parakeet, or magpie is addressed (বলো বাবা আত্মারাম). আত্মারাম খাঁচাছাড়া হওয়া v. to die. আত্মারাম শুকিয়ে যাওয়া v. to cower. 37)

(p. 98) ākalana calculation; (accts.) credit. ̃স্হিতি n. credit balance. 24)

(p. 126) āsatti union, amalgamation; proximity, adjacency, acquisition, acquirement; profit; (gr.) proximity of related words within a sentence (cp. collocation). 143)

(p. 126) āśrama a hermitage; a residence (usu. a small one), a cottage (পুণ্যাশ্রম); an asylum or refuge (আতুরাশ্রম, অনাথাশ্রম); a residential institution (esp. an educational or religious one) (বিদ্যাশ্রম); a stage of life (গার্হস্হ্যাশ্রম). ̃ধর্ম n. duties or rites to be performed by inmates of a hermitage or asylum or refuge or residential institution; duties to be performed in each of the stages of life. ̃বাসী a. & n. one who lives in a hermitage or asylum or refuge or residential institution. fem. ˜বাসিনী । ̃ভ্রষ্ট a. fallen from one's religious order. আশ্রমিক, আশ্রমী a. of or living in a hermitage or asylum or refuge or residential institution, or pertaining to the life in it; adopting any of the stages of life. n. an inmate of a hermitage or asylum or refuge or residential institution; one in any of the stages of life. 126)

(p. 107) ādhikya excess; abundance; intemperance; predominance; rifeness. 98)

(p. 107) ādhōẏā unwashed; unbleached. 112)

(p. 106) āṭhālō glutinous, viscid, gluey, adhesive, sticky; clayey (আঠালো মাটি). 8)

(p. 104) āchaḍ়ā-āchaḍ়i throwing continuously to the ground with force; mutual knocking to the ground as in wrestling. 7)

(p. 133) āhituṇḍika same as আহিক । 50)