(p. 517) dainya utter poverty or need, indigence; affliction, distress; humbleness; wretchedness, misery; penury. ̃দশা, দৈন্যাবস্হা n. utter poverty, indigent condition; afflicted or distressed or humble or wretched or miserable state. ̃দশাগ্রস্ত, ̃দশাপন্ন, ̃পীড়িত a. poverty-stricken, indigent; afflicted, distressed; wretched, miserable; penurious. 48)

(p. 492) dātyūha a species of water-fowl, the gallinule. 26)

(p. 495) dāma1 price, cost, value. চাওয়া-দাম n. the asking price. দাম দেওয়া v. (fig.) to pay for (trouble, foolish behaviour etc.). দাম পড়া, দাম লাগা v. to cost. দামাদামি n. haggling or higgling, chaffering; bargaining. 18)

(p. 508) duṣkarma, duṣkārya a wicked act, a misdeed; a mischief; a crime; a sin. দুষ্কর্মা a. one who has committed a wicked act or a crime or a sin; given to wickedness, evil-doing; mischievous; criminal; sinning, sinful. 63)

(p. 522) dōṣākrānta, dōṣānbita defective, faulty; stricken with morbidity, morbid, diseased; affected with a vice, vicious. 10)

(p. 507) durgraha1 (astrol.) a malicious or ill-boding star. 21)

(p. 506) durācaraṇīẏa very difficult to perform or accomplish. 20)

(p. 485) dastura a custom or practice, a usage; a convention; a rule. ̃মতো, ̃মাফিয়া a. in keeping with custom or convention or rule, customary, conventional. adv. thoroughly, quite. 88)

(p. 522) dbipa the elephant. 58)

(p. 481) daḍ়i a cord, a string; a halter (ফাঁসির দড়ি a fillet (চুল-বাঁধা দড়ি). দড়ি ছেঁড়া v. to snap a string; to get loose from bonds or bondage; to escape from captivity or control. ̃ছেঁড়া a. got loosened from bonds or bondage; (fig.) out of captivity; (fig.) unrestrained. ̃দড়া n. strings and ropes, cordage. দড়ি দেওয়া v. (lit.) to give a piece of string; to put a halter round one's neck; to hang. দড়ি পাকানো v. to twist ropes and cords, to make ropes and cords. ̃কলসি n. a piece of cord and a pitcher: equipment for committing suicide (one may drown oneself by tying a pitcher full of water to one's neck with a piece of cord). তোমার দড়ি-কলসি জোটে না (in curses and scolding) go, get yourself drowned. তোমার গলায় দড়ি (in curses and scolding) go, hang yourself. ভেবে ভেবে দড়ি হওয়া to be reduced to a skeleton or be emaciated through worries and anxieties. 21)

(p. 481) daṇḍāẏamāna in the standing posture, standing up. দণ্ডায়মান হওয়া v. to stand up. 27)

(p. 517) dēśācāra customs and practices peculiar to a country. 23)

(p. 508) duhya fit to be milked (as a cow). ̃মানা a. fem. one who or that which is being milked. 76)

(p. 480) di curdled milk, curd. দই পাতা v. to curdle milk; to keep milk in such a way that it will congeal or freeze into curd. চিনিপাতা দই milk curdled with sugar, sweet curd. সাজা দই recently curdled milk, fresh curd. হাতে দই পাতে দই তবু বলে কই কই (lit.) with curd on the palm of one's hand and on the plate, one still complains that it is not enough; (fig.) there is more than enough, yet complaining of scarcity; (cp.) want is unlimited and insatiable. 4)

(p. 485) dara1 hole, a pit; a crevice (of a mountain); fear, dread, terror; a quake, a shake; a stream; an exudation. adv. a little, slightly. 18)