ঠেকা : (p. 429) ṭhēkā to touch (আকাশে ঠেকা, পায়ে ঠেকা); to reach, to reach and stop at (তিরটা গিয়ে গাছে ঠেকল); to come down to (আয় শূন্যে ঠেকেছে); to strike or dash against (বলটা দেওয়ালে ঠেকে ফিরে এল); to be obstructed or impeded or prevented, to be at a dead end or at a knotty point (অঙ্কটা ঠেকছে কীসে); to be involved in (দায়ে ঠেকা, বিপদে ঠেকা); to be involved in difficulty or danger, to be in a fix (ঠেকে শেখা); to be felt or considered (খারাপ ঠেকা). n. a difficulty, a fix (ঠেকায় পড়া); financial difficulty or want (ঠেকার কাজ চালানো); touch, contact (ঠেকা লাগা); act of accompanying a piece of music by beating 'tabla' (তবলা) (ঠেকা ছারা ঠুংরি জমে না); a prop, a support, a lean-to (ঘরের চালে ঠেকা দেওয়া). a. touching (আকাশে ঠেকা মাথা). চোখে ঠেকা v. to look bad or uncomely. ঠেকে ঠেকে বলা to speak haltingly. ঠেকাঠেকি n. mutual touching or contact. ঠেকানো v. to cause to touch, to bring into contact; to cause to reach; to cause to reach and stop; to bring to; to cause to strike or dash against; to obstruct, to impede, to prevent; to stave off; to involve; to involve in difficulty or danger. 23)

(p. 429) ṭhunakō1 milk fever (also ঠুনকো জ্বর). 16)

(p. 427) ṭhām̐i2 a place; a seat on which one sits to take one's meal (অতিথির জন্য ঠাঁই করা); shelter (চোরকে বাড়িতে ঠাঁই দিয়ো না); accommodation, room, space ('ঠাঁই নাই ঠাঁই নাই, ছোট সে তরী'); bottom (নদীর ঠাঁই পাওয়া); possession or source. ঠাঁইঠাঁই a. living apart from one another (ভাই-ভাই ঠাঁই-ঠাঁই); separated, disunited, disintegrated. ̃নাড়া, ̃বদল n. change of place. 12)

(p. 429) ṭhyā leg; shank.

(p. 429) ṭhēlā a shove, a push (ঠেলা দেওয়া); a difficulty or a difficult task (ঠেলা সামলানো); a hand-cart or a hand-barrow. a. that which is driven by pushing with hands (ঠেলাগাড়ি). v. to push, to shove; to ignore or disobey (কথা ঠেলা); to avoid or desert ('না ঠেলহ ছলে অবলা অখলে'); to expel (জাতে ঠেলা). জাতে ঠেলা, সমাজে ঠেলা v. to outcaste, to excommunicate, to boycott socially. ঠেলার নাম বাবাজি (fig.) a cat in a mesh calls the mouse its brother. ̃গাড়ি n. a push-cart, a hand-barrow. ̃ঠেলি n. mutual or repeated shoving or pushing. 27)

(p. 429) ṭhikaṭhāka exact, precise, just; firmly fixed or settled. 3)

(p. 429) ṭhēṅā a staff, a stave, a wooden pole, a heavy stick, a lathi; a wooden rod (esp. one used for bolting a door). ঠেঙাঠেঙি n. act of exchanging blows with lathis, a fight with lathis; fighting. ঠেঙাড়ে n. a community of Indian robbers who used to kill pedestrians by beating them with lathis; one of these robbers. ঠেঙানি n. act of flogging with a lathi; flogging. ঠেঙানো v. to flog with a lathi or rod; to bastinado; to flog, to birch. 25)

(p. 427) ṭhām̐i1 expressing the noise as of slapping strongly. ঠাঁই ঠাঁই int. expressing this noise made repeatedly and quickly. 11)

(p. 429) ṭhukarānō to peck, to nibble; to nibble at a bait. a. pecked; nibbled at. 13)

(p. 427) ṭhāsa1 expressing the sound as of a violent slap. ঠাস ঠাস int. expressing quick and repeated sound of such slapping. adv. making this noise repeatedly and in quick succession. 27)

(p. 429) ṭhikādāra a contractor. ঠিকাদারি n. contractorship. a. relating to contract work. 8)

(p. 427) ṭhāma a place, a resort ('রহল কোন ঠাম'); possession or company (রাধার ঠাম); shape, form, figure (বঙ্কিম ঠাম, সুঠাম দেহ); beauty (কিবা সে ঠাম); style, manner, fashion, posture ('চূড়ার টালনি বামে মউর-চন্দ্রিকা ঠামে'). 24)

(p. 427) ṭh the twelfth consonant of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 429) ṭhumaki a mode or posture of dancing. 18)

(p. 429) ṭhukā, ṭhōka to hit esp. on the head (হাতুড়ি ঠোকা); to hammer; to drive in by hitting on the head (পেরেক ঠুকছে); to strike against, to knock, to rap (মাথা ঠোকা, গোড়ালি ঠোকা, লাঠি ঠোকা); to slap noisily (তাল ঠোকা); to beat or thrash, to scold or reprimand (লোকটাকে ঠুকে দিয়ো). n. a knock or impact; beating or thrashing, scolding or reprimanding. ঠুকাঠুকি, ঠোকাঠুকি n. repeated striking (on the head); repeated (slight) collision or quarrel; mutual bantering. 14)

(p. 427) ṭhānḍā-laḍ়āi cold war. 23)