কান : (p. 220) kāna the ear; sense or power of
hearing; audition; heed
(কথায় কান দেওয়া); an
ear-like key of a
violin or
similar instruments; anything resembling an ear.
কান কাটা v.
(fig.) to
defeat or
supersede outright. কান কাটা যাওয়া v. to
suffer deep
humiliation. কান খাড়া করা v.
(fig.) to prick up one's ears, to be all ears.
কান ঝালাপালা করা v. to vex or annoy by
deafening or
discordant noise. কান দেওয়া v. to give
attention or ear (to), to
listen to, to pay heed (to), to lend an ear (to).
কান ধরা v. to pull one's ears (as a mark of
chastisement. rebuke or
insult). কান না দেওয়া v. to turn a deaf ear (to), to
refuse to hear, to pay no heed (to).
কান পাকা v. to have pus
formed within one's
ear-holes. ̃পাটা n. the
cluster or lock of hair
hanging by the side of ears,
sideburns; flap of the ear, lobe of the ear.
কান পাতা v. to give ear (to); to pay heed (to).
কান ফুটানো, কান বিঁধানো v. to get the lobe of the ear
pierced, esp. for
wearing earrings. কান ভাঙানো, কান ভারী করা v. to speak to a
person secretly in order to
prejudice him
against another, to
earwig. কান মলা v. to pull one's ear, to pull one by the ear;
(fig.) to put out of
countenance or
defeat utterly, to
discomfit. কানে আঙুল দেওয়া v. to put one's
fingers into one's ears (as a mark of
refusal to
hear). কানে ওঠা v. to reach the ears or to come to hear.
কানে খাটো a. short of
hearing, hard of
hearing. কানে তালা লাগা v. to have one's ears
deafened by loud or
ear-splitting noise etc.)
কানে তোলা v. to
inform (against); to pay heed to.
কানে ধরে বলা v. to draw one's
attention with
rebuke. কানে লাগা v. to sound
plausible or
acceptable or
sweet. ̃-কাটা a.
shameless, brazenfaced, unblushing; thick-skinned, unperturbed by
ridicule or
derision. ̃কুয়া, (coll.) ̃কো n. the gill of a fish etc., the
branchia. ̃খুশকি n. an
ear-pick. ̃পাতলা a. apt to
believe (evil
reports about
others) without sufficient evidence, credulous. ̃ফাটা1, ̃ফাটানো a. (of
sounds etc.)
deafening, stunning. ̃ফাটা2 a. of a class of monks with their
external ears split
(কানফাটা যোগী). ̃বালা n. an
earring. ̃ভাঙানি n.
speaking secretly to a
person in order to
prejudice him or her
against another, earwigging. 67)