(p. 438) ḍh the fourteenth consonant of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 438) ḍhakkā a large drum. ̃ধ্বনি, ̃নিনাদ n. the sound of such a drum. 6)

(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. 438) ḍhalā to incline forwards or backwards or sideways; to go down (সূর্য পশ্চিমে ঢলেছে); to incline towards, to dote on (ছেলের দিকে ঢলা). ̃ঢলি n. scandalous behaviour (esp. in love); objectionable familiarity or mixing; a scandalous affair. ঢলানে a. given to scandalous behaviour. fem. ঢলানি । ঢলানো v. to cause to incline; to behave scandalously. ঢলে পড়া v. to droop, to collapse (from loss of muscular strength etc.). 15)

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

(p. 439) ḍhālī a shield-bearer; a soldier bearing a shield or buckler. 11)

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

(p. 439) ḍhila1 a hard roundish lump esp. of stone or brick or clay. ঢিল মারা v. to pelt with these lumps, to throw stones or brickbats. 16)

(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. 438) ḍhalaḍhala expressing: excessive looseness (জামাটা ঢলঢল করছে); loveliness (মুখ খানা ঢলঢল করছে); wideness or largeness (আঁখি ঢলঢল); engrossed or rapt state (ভাবে ঢলঢল); a. large or wide and expressive (ঢলঢল আখি); full of beauty or charm. ('ঢলঢল কাঁচা অঙ্গের লাবনি'). ঢলঢলে a. very loose-fitting (ঢলঢলে জামা); full of loveliness (ঢলঢলে মুখ). 13)

(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. 439) ḍhipi a mound; a hillock; an artificial hill; a heap, a pile (কাপড়চোপড়ের ঢিপি); a hill (উইয়ের ঢিপি). 15)

(p. 438) ḍhām̐i a species of large fish without scale, (cp.) the trout. 17)

(p. 439) ḍhāmāli pleasantries, drolleries, jokes. 5)

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