ছায়া : (p. 379) chāẏā a reflection, a shadow; shade, umbra (ছায়ায় বসা); semblance, resemblance, likeness (ছেলেটি বাপেরই ছায়া); slight influence (এ কবিতায় রবীন্দ্রনাথের ছায়া আছে); a faint shadow (এ উত্সবে আনন্দের ছায়াও নেই); a constant companion (ছায়া হয়ে সঙ্গে থাকা); a spectre, an apparition, a ghost (ছায়াশরীর); darkness (রাতের ছায়া, সন্ধ্যার ছায়া); glow, shine, lustre (রত্নচ্ছায়া); shelter or protection ('দেহ পদচ্ছায়া'); the name of the wife of the Hindu sungod. ছায়া না মাড়ানো to keep one's distance, to stand or keep aloof. ̃চিত্র n. a cinematographic film; a cinema. ̃তরু n. a large tree giving shade. ̃ত্মজ, ̃সুত n. Saturn, the son of the sungod. ̃দেহ, ̃শরীর n. a spectre, an apparition, a phantom, a ghost. ̃নট n. an Indian musical mode. ̃পথ n. galaxy, the Milky Way. ̃বাজি n. magic; magic lantern. ̃ভিনয় n. shadow-play. ̃মণ্ডপ n. a canopied place in the open (esp. where a Hindu wedding-ceremony is held). ̃ময় a. shady, umbrageous, shadowy, bowery (ছায়াময় স্হান); spectral, apparitional, ghostly (ছায়াময় দেহ). ̃মুর্তি n. an apparition, a phantom, a spectre, a ghost. 11)

(p. 382) chōṭā2 a piece of dried bark of banana or dried straw used as a string. 35)

(p. 375) chalacchala expressing rippling noise. a. making a rippling noise, rippling ('ছলচ্ছল...তরঙ্গা'). 32)

(p. 377) chānā1 to knead; to make into a paste by pressing with hands, to soften by kneading (কাদা ছেনে পুতুল গড়া). a. kneaded; made into a paste by pressing with hands, softened by kneading. 30)

(p. 375) chabi1 glow, lustre (রবিচ্ছবি); beauty, show (মুখচ্ছবি). 25)

(p. 374) chaḍ়āchaḍ়i scattering about negligently and profusely; state of being scattered about negligently and profusely; profusion, abundance. ছড়াছড়ি যাওয়া v. to lie scattered about neglectedly and abundantly; to go a-begging. 19)

(p. 382) churita besmeared, coated; entangled; inlaid, beset; bedecked; pervaded; involved. 6)

(p. 382) chōhārā dried date, currant. 45)

(p. 377) chāda roof; ceiling. ছাদের ঘর an attic. ̃ক a. & n. one who or that which covers; one who builds a roof or thatches. ̃ন n. act of covering or roofing or thatching; a roofing or thatching material. 27)

(p. 382) chēka1 stoppage, remission, cessation, suspension. 18)

(p. 382) chē (dial.) a slice; (dial.) recess or suspension, interval, stoppage (বৃষ্টির ছে নেই). 9)

(p. 375) chatrī umbrella-bearing; one who bears an open umbrella (as a regalia) over the head of a monarch or a person of importance or high status. 14)

(p. 374) chaḍ়ā2 a rhyme (ছেলে-ভোলানো ছড়া = a nursery rhyme; গ্রাম্য-ছড়া = a folkrhyme); a set of things threaded together or arranged as if threaded, a string (গোটছড়া); a bunch, a cluster (একছড়া কলা); a spell of sprinkling or a solution for sprinkling (গোবর ছড়া). ছড়া কাটা v. to cap verses, to quote apt verses. 18)

(p. 377) chān̐ṭa clippings, loppings, cuttings, scrap of anything; style of cutting or cropping, cut (জামার ছাঁট, চুলের ছাঁট). a. scrap (ছাঁট কাগজ). 6)

(p. 380) chidyamāna in the process of being cut up or hewed. 8)

(p. 375) chalanā, chalana deception, deceit, fraud; dissimulation; beguilement, double-dealing; hoaxing. ছলনা করা v. to deceive; to beguile; to hoax; to play (a person) false. 34)