(p. 439) ḍhākā to cover; to veil; to screen; to envelop; to overcast (মেঘে ঢাকা); to conceal, to hide; to hush up; (usu. dero.) to countenance or to connive at. n. a lid; a cover; a veil; (usu. dero.) connivance. a. covered; veiled; screened; enveloped; overcast. 2)

(p. 438) ḍhākaḍhāka, ḍhākaḍhāka-guḍ়guḍ় an attempt to conceal or hush up; hush-hush state. 19)

(p. 440) ḍhēn̐ki a kind of husking pedal operated in a seesaw manner. ঢেঁকির আঁকশলি the fulcrum of a husking pedal. ̃কল n. a seesaw. ̃শাক n. an edible fern. ̃শাল, ̃শালা n. a room (usu. a cutcha one) where the husking pedal is fixed. ঢেঁকি স্বর্গে গেলেও ধান ভানে (fig.) an expert worker has to work even in heaven; a drudge will drudge even in heaven. 10)

(p. 439) ḍhākāi made or manufactured at Dacca (a district of Bangladesh). 3)

(p. 438) ḍhāka1 a drum. ঢাক পেটা, ঢাক বাজানো v. to beat a drum; (fig.) to make public or announce publicly. ঢাকের কাঠি a drumstick; (fig.) an instigator. ঢাকের বাঁয়া useless appurtenances or paraphernalia; something merely decorative. ঢাকের বাদ্যি drum-beat. ঢাকের দায়ে মনসা বিকানো (fig.) to run insolvent in attempting to keep up appearances, to sell one's homestead to grease one's car. 18)

(p. 439) ḍhāla2 a slope, a declivity, a descent. cp. ঢল । 7)

(p. 440) ḍhuḍhu (also n.) expressing nothingness. কাজের বেলায় ঢুঢু found wanting when called upon to prove (one's) worth; of no worth or value at the time of work or crucial test. 4)

(p. 440) ḍhōn̐ḍ়ā2 a non-venomous water-snake; (sarcas.) a person without personality and power. 21)

(p. 440) ḍhēn̐ḍ়ā, ḍhēn̐ḍ়i1 a drum, a tympan (ঢেঁড়া পেটা); a proclamation by drum-beat (ঢেঁড়া দেওয়া). 12)

(p. 439) ḍhāki a drummer. ঢাকি সুদ্ধ বিসর্জন (lit.) to throw away or immerse the drummer with the idol; (fig.) to lose or sarcifice everything; to let go the rope after the bucket, to throw the baby out with the bathwater. 4)

(p. 439) ḍhilāmi, (kathya) ḍhilēmi slackness, sluggishness, lack of enthusiasm or spiritedness.

(p. 440) ḍhēri a heap, a pile, a stack. ঢেরি করা v. to heap, to pile. 18)

(p. 438) ḍha1 affected or conquettish bearing or pose; dissimulation; affectation; shape, form, cut, fashion, style, manner. ঢঙি a. fem. given to affectation; conquettish; dissimulating. n. such a woman, a poseuse. 3)

(p. 440) ḍhu, ḍhu act of butting (as by a goat etc.). ঢু মারা, ঢুঁ মারা v. to butt; to put in appearance, to knock (চাকরির জন্য সর্বত্র ঢুঁ মারা). 2)

(p. 440) ḍhēn̐ḍ়i2 a kind of earring; a poppy-seed; a poppy pod or seed-vessel. 13)