(p. 485) damā to be subdued or restrained or repressed or suppressed or coerced; (of diseases etc.) to be removed or abated or mitigated, to subside; (of place etc.) to sink to a lower level; to become dejected or depressed or downcast (লোকসান খেয়ে সে বড় দমে গেছে). a. depressed, sunk, downcast. দমানো v. to subdue, to restrain, to repress, to suppress, to coerce; to remove, to abate, to mitigate; to depress; to deject. a. depressed, sunk. 8)

(p. 500) dīkṣā admission with rite (as to a religious practice or order, a secret society etc.), initiation; employment in service of some sacred cause (স্বাধীনতার মন্ত্রে দীক্ষা); an instruction or teaching; a sacrament; an inspiration; (dero.) an instigation. দীক্ষা দেওয়া v. to initiate; to convert (মুসলমানধর্মে দীক্ষা দেওয়া); to baptize (খ্রিস্টধর্মে দীক্ষা নেওয়া); to teach, to indoctrinate (into a subject); to employ. দীক্ষা পাওয়া, দীক্ষা নেওয়া v. to be initiated; to be converted; to be baptized; to be taught or indoctrinated, to learn; to be employed. ̃গুরু n. an initiator; a guru or preceptor who has initiated. ̃গ্রহণ n. act of receiving initiation. দীক্ষা গ্রহণ করা v. to be initiated. ̃মন্ত্র n. a mysterious formula that a person is taught at initiation. 21)

(p. 507) durga a fort; a fortress; a castle; a stronghold; a tower; a fortification. ̃পতি same as দুর্গেশ । ̃প্রাকার n. a rampart. 11)

(p. 522) dauḍ়ādauḍ়i act of running about; act of romping or gadding; boisterous and hard effort attended with repeated or constant hurried movements. দৌড়াদৌড়ি করা v. to run about; to romp; to gad about; to be engaged in a boisterous and hard effort attended with repeated or constant hurried movements. 30)

(p. 508) dēbā (dero. & sarcas.) a god or a man ('যেমন দেবা, তেমনি দেবী' = like man, like wife). 134)

(p. 495) dāraka a son. a. cleaving, splitting. 42)

(p. 481) dajjāla (usu. of a woman) hot-tempered, querulous and overbearing, refractory; wayward; wicked; choleric; (dero.) uncontrollable. 16)

(p. 485) dariẏā a sea; an ocean; a bay; a river (usu. a large one). 45)

(p. 517) dērakō a wooden lampstand. 19)

(p. 492) dāpana2 pressing, pressure; trampling.

(p. 495) dārubrahma the wooden image of Juggernaut (জগন্নাথ) at Puri. 49)

(p. 522) dbābiṃśa twenty-two. ̃তি a. & n. twenty-two. দ্বাবিংশতিতম a. twenty-second. fem. দ্বাবিংশতিতমী । 45)

(p. 485) damabāja a fibber; a braggart; a bamboozler, a hoaxer. দমবাজি n. bragging; bamboozlement, hoaxing; a hoax, a fib, a bam. 5)

(p. 500) dibasa a day; the time from sunrise to sunset; twenty-four hours from one sunrise to the next; daytime. দিবসাত্যয়, দিবসাবসান n. close or end of the day; the evening. দিবসালোক n. daylight. 7)

(p. 485) dalāimalāi act of currying (a horse); act of massaging (a human being); (fig.) strenuous and continuous effort. দলাইমলাই করা v. to curry; to massage; (fig.) to make strenuous and continued effort. 66)