(p. 531) dhapa dhapa expressing: brilliant whiteness or tidiness. ধপ ধপ করা v. to appear brilliantly white or tidy. ধপধপে a. brilliantly white (ধপধপে কাপড়); luminous (ধপধপে জোছনা); immaculately tidy (ধপধপে উঠোন); brilliant or dazzling (ধপধপে সাদা). 11)

(p. 540) dhābana act of running; a run; a race; flight; act of cleansing or washing. ̃পথ n. air-strip. 4)

(p. 543) dhurandhara bearing the yoke; very expert or efficient or adroit; leading, chief. n. such a person. 21)

(p. 540) dhāraẏitā one who or that which holds or catches or assumes or wears or puts on or bears or carries or places or retains in one's memory or remembers or accepts or retains or restrains. ধারয়িত্রি a. fem. of ধারয়িতা । n. the earth (esp. when conceived as the progenitrix of all creatures). 20)

(p. 532) dharāṭa (comm.) discount. 13)

(p. 545) dhyāna meditation; absorbing religious meditation; recollection; remembrance. ধ্যান করা v. to meditate (upon); to be absorbed in religious meditation; to recollect; to remember. ̃গম্ভীর a. grave and silent on account of absorption in meditation; consecrated or sanctified with holy meditation; solemnly absorbed in (spiritual) meditation ('ধ্যানগম্ভীর ঐ যে ভূধর'). ̃গম্য, ̃গোচর a. comprehensible or cognizable or attainable (only) through (deep) meditation. ̃জ্ঞান n. meditation and cognition, thought and feeling; (loos.) sole occupation or absorption. ̃তত্পর a. given to meditation; capable of being absorbed in meditation. ̃ধারণা n. meditation and impression, thought and perception; idea; impression. ̃নিষ্ঠ a. meditative. ̃ভঙ্গ n. interruption or break of meditation (esp. a spiritual one). ̃মগ্ন a. absorbed or engrossed in meditation. ̃রত, ̃স্হ a. engaged in meditation. 41)

(p. 545) dhēnu a cow that has recently calved; a milch cow. ̃পাল n. a herd of cows. 8)

(p. 545) dhairya patience, fortitude; endurance; forbearance; composure (মনের ধৈর্য); (Vaishnava phil.) disinterestedness, indifference, apathy. ধৈর্য ধরা v. to have patience. ধৈর্য রক্ষা করা v. to forbear or endure; to contain oneself; to keep calm; to have patience. অসীম ধৈর্য endless patience, the patience of Job. ̃চ্যুত a. out of patience; impatient; failing to contain oneself. ̃চ্যুতি n. loss of patience; impatience. ̃ধারণ n. act of keeping patient, act of containing oneself; forbearance. ̃বান, ̃শালী, ̃শীল a. patient; enduring; forbearing. fem. ̃বতী, ̃শালিনী, ̃শীলা । ̃শীলতা n. patience; endurance; calmness. ̃হারা same as ̃চ্যুত । ̃রহিত, ̃হীন a. lacking patience, devoid of patience; impatient; out of patience; fretting; restless. fem. ̃হীনা । ̃হীনতা n. impatience; impetuosity, restlessness. ধৈর্যাবলম্বন same as ধৈর্যধারণ । 13)

(p. 543) dhṛtātmā self-possessed. calm and collected, not distracted. 40)

(p. 532) dharā1 the earth, the world. ̃তল n. the surface or floor of the earth; the ground (মূর্ছিত হয়ে ধরাতলে পতন). ̃ধর n. a mountain. ̃ধাম n. earthly abode; the earth as an abode; the earth, the world. ̃পতি n. a king. ̃পৃষ্ঠ same as ধরাতল । ̃ভৃত্ n. a mountain. ̃শয়ন, ̃শয্যা n. the ground or the floor of the earth as bed, the bed of the earth or ground. ̃শায়ী a. lying prostrate on the ground; floored, knocked down. 10)

(p. 532) dharmāntara another religion, a different religion. ̃গ্রহণ n. adoption of or conversion to a different religion. ধর্মান্তর গ্রহণ করা v. to adopt a different religion, to be converted to a different religion. ধর্মান্তরিত a. converted to a different religion. fem. ধর্মান্তরিতা । ধর্মান্তরিত ব্যক্তি n. a religious convert. ধর্মান্তরীকরণ n. conversion to a different faith or religion, proselytism. 25)

(p. 532) dhānī (used chiefly as a sfx.) a place or residence or seat (রাজধানী) । 79)

(p. 540) dhāra2 a stream or flow (অশ্রুধার). 14)

(p. 532) dhāi, dhāi-mā nurse; nurse-mother; a wet-nurse; a midwife; a foster-mother. 57)

(p. 545) dhruba (myth.) a prince famous for his incomparable devotion to God Hari (হরি); the Pole Star, the Polaris, the North Star, the cynosure, a. sure, certain; fixed; firm, deep-seated (ধ্রুববিশ্বাস); constant; actual, real (ধ্রুব সত্য). adv. surely, certainly (সে ধ্রুব আসবে); for sure, for certain (ধ্রুব জোনো). ̃তা n. sureness, surety, certainty; fixity; firmness; constancy; actuality, reality. ̃তারা, ̃নক্ষত্র n. the Pole Star, the North Star, the Polaris, the cynosure; the constant or firm goal or guide (জীবনের ধ্রুবতারা). ̃পদ n. a style of Indian classical song, dhrupad (ধ্রুপদ); a constant note ('যে ধ্রুবপদ দিয়েছ বাঁধি বিশ্বতানে'). ̃বিশ্বাস firm faith or belief or conviction. ̃রেখা n. (geog.) the equator, the equinoctial line. ̃লোক n. (myth.) a separate heaven created for Dhruba (ধ্রুব) to live in after his ascension to heaven; Paradise. ̃সত্য n. an absolute truth, a confirmed truth. a. absolutely true. 45)