(p. 540) dhāraṇā conception; realization or comprehension; feeling or impression; supposition, surmise; a notion; an idea; belief or faith; remembrance or memory; intelligence; rapt attention. ধারণা করা v. to conceive; to realize or comprehend; to feel, to have an impression (of); to suppose, to guess; to form or have an idea (of); to believe; to think. ̃তীত a. inconceivable; incomprehensible; (loos.) unthought of, unexpected. ̃শক্তি n. ability to conceive an idea, power of comprehension; intelligence; retentive capacity or power. 18)

(p. 543) dhūpa resin, incense. ̃কাঠি n. incense burner, incense stick. ধূপচি alt. spell of ধুপচি । ̃ধুনো n. incense; incensing. ধূপন n. act of perfuming or fumigating with incense, incensing. 26)

(p. 545) dhōm̐ẏā smoke; fume; vapour, steam; gas; (loos.) mist, fog; (fig.) anything intangible or obscure. ধোঁয়া ওড়ানো v. (facet. or dero.) to smoke tobacco. ধোঁয়া ছাড়া v. to emit smoke; to puff tobaccosmoke. বুদ্ধির গোড়ায় ধোঁয়া দেওয়া v. to (try to) awaken one's dormant intelligence or devise plans by means of smoking tobacco. ধোঁয়াটে a. smoke-like; smoky; vapoury; (loos.) misty, foggy; (fig.) intangible; unintelligible; woolly, confused; obscure. 17)

(p. 543) dhunā1 resin; incense. 6)

(p. 532) dhānaśrī, dhānaśi an Indian musical mode. 76)

(p. 532) dhāṅara a sweeper (by caste or trade). 66)

(p. 545) dhyāta meditated upon; recollected; remembered. ধ্যাতব্য a. deserving or fit to be meditated upon or recollected or remembered. ধ্যাতা a. & n. one who meditates or recollects or remembers. 40)

(p. 545) dhbānta darkness, gloom. ধ্বান্তারি n. the sun (esp. when personified), (cp.) Sol. 39)

(p. 529) dhaka expressing: sudden blaze or glow (as of fire); sudden throb or jerk (বুকটা ধক করে উঠল). ধকধক int. expressing: state of blazing or glowing by flashes or repeatedly; throbbing or palpitation. ধকধক করা v. to glow or blaze by flashes or repeatedly; to dazzle (হিরেখানা ধকধক করছে); to palpitate or throb greatly. ̃ধকানি n. loud and great throbbing or palpitation. 3)

(p. 529) dhanika moneyed, wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent; capitalistic, capitalist. n. one who invests money in a business, an investor, a capitalist; a rich merchant, a merchant prince; a moneylender; a rich man. fem. ধনিকা a rich man's wife; a young and beautiful woman. ̃গোষ্ঠী, ̃সমাজ, ̃সম্প্রদায় n. the moneyed class, the capitalist class; the capitalist world. ̃তন্ত্র n. capitalistic or capitalist government; capitalism. 25)

(p. 532) dhasā to come off and fall down (নদীর পাড় ধসা); to collapse (বাড়ির পাঁচিল ধসা); to weaken or deteriorate (রোগে শরীর ধসা). a. that which has come off and fallen down; collapsed; weakened or deteriorated. ধসানো v. to cause to come off and fall down; to loosen and throw down; to cause to collapse; to make weak or to impair. 53)

(p. 545) dhbasta destroyed; annihilated; perished; wrecked, ruined; impaired, run down; devastated; demolished; fallen; vanquished. 38)

(p. 542) dhīra slow, tardy (ধীর গতি); unperturbed, calm, composed (ধীর মন); gentle or modest or mild (ধীরস্বভাব, ধীর বায়ু); grave (ধীরকন্ঠ); firm, steady (ধীর চিত্ত); judicious or considerate (ধীর ব্যক্তি). ̃তা n. slowness; unperturbedness, calmness, composure; gentleness, modesty, mildness; graveness, gravity; firmness, steadiness; judiciousness, considerateness. ̃প্রকৃতি a. gentle or modest by nature. ̃প্রশান্ত n. (rhet.) a type of hero endowed with various good qualities. ̃ভাবে adv. slowly; mildly; gently; calmly. ̃ললিত n. (rhet.) a type of hero who is gentle by nature and of calm disposition and proficient in music and dance. ̃স্বভাব same as ধীরপ্রকৃতি । ̃স্হির a. calm and composed. 9)

(p. 532) dhāuḍ়ē an errand-boy, a fast messenger. 59)

(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)