(p. 532) dhān̐dhā dazzlement of sight; optical illusion; confusion, bewilderment, daze; an intricate problem; a riddle, a puzzle; a maze; a tricky but interesting question or problem, a poser. v. (usu. in poet.) to dazzle the sight of, to have one's sight dazzled, to daze. ধাঁধাঁর উত্তর the solution of a puzzle. ধাঁধাঁ দেওয়া v. to give a puzzle for solution; to hoodwink; to confound; to bamboozle. ধাঁধা লাগা v. to have one's sight dazzled; to be dazed; to be confused or puzzled. ধাঁধা লাগানো v. to daze the sight of; to daze; to confound; to bewilder, to puzzle; to hoodwink; to dazzle. ধাঁধানো same as ধাঁধা লাগানো 64)

(p. 529) dhakala stress, brunt, impact; pressure of work, hard labour, strain (রোগা শরীরে এত ধকল সইবে না); manhandling or wear and tear (ঘুরিটা খুব ধকল সয়েছে); disturbing or troublesome charge (ছেলেপিলেদের ধকল). 4)

(p. 529) dhanādhikārī possessed of or possessing wealth. 17)

(p. 532) dhā1 (mus.) the natural B sound; the sixth note in the Indian musical gamut. 55)

(p. 540) dhārī2 (chiefly used as a sfx.) holding, carrying, bearing, wearing, assuming (অস্ত্রধারী, বস্ত্রধারী). 28)

(p. 531) dhanbantari (Hindu myth.) the name of the physician of heaven; (fig.) an unfailing physician. 8)

(p. 545) dhōlāi act of washing; act of washing and bleaching; (fig.) sound beating (ধোলাই দেওয়া). a. washed; washed and bleached. 22)

(p. 543) dhurā the shaft of a vehicle, a thill; a yoke; an axle, an axle-tree; (fig.) burden, load. 22)

(p. 543) dhūmākāra shaped like or looking like smoke, fume, vapour, gas etc. 29)

(p. 532) dhātāni a sound scolding; reprimand. ধাতানো v. to scold soundly, to reprimand, to take somebody to task severely. 71)

(p. 545) dhrubākṣa (astr.) the Polar axis. 47)

(p. 529) dhaḍ়ibāja guileful, deceitful, tricksy, cunning, full of ruses. ধড়বাজি n. guilefulness, deceitfulness, tricksiness, cunning; guile, deceit, trick, cunning. ধড়িবাজ লোক a trickster, a cunning or deceitful or wily fellow. 11)

(p. 532) dharmārjana acquisition of virtue or piety. ধর্মার্জন করা v. to acquire virtue or piety. 31)

(p. 532) dharapākaḍ় extensive or collective arrests (as by the police); insistent solicitation (চাকরির জন্য ধরপাকড়) ধরপাকড় করা v. to arrest extensively or collectively, to round up; to solicit insistently. 9)

(p. 532) dhātu a metal; a mineral; mettle (লোকটি শক্ত ধাতুতে গড়া); temperament, disposition (শিল্পিদের ধাতুই আলাদা); (physiol.) any one of the four constituent fluids of the body, a humour; semen, sperm (ধাতুদৌর্বল্য); any one of the principal constituents of the physical world (namely, earth, water, fire, air, and atmosphere), an element; (gr.) a verbal root. অবরধাতু a base metal. বরধাতু a noble metal. ̃কল্প a. metalloid. ̃ক্ষয় n. (passive) loss of seminal fluid, seminal emission; (rare) abrasion of metal. ̃গত a. temperamental; constitutional, characteristic; seminal; (rare) metallic. ̃গর্ভ a. impregnated with minerals or metals, mineral; (of a Buddhist temple) containing the remains of a holy person's corpse. ̃ঘটিত a. of or made of metal, metallic; mineral; (of medicine) having metal as a constituent; concerning semen. ̃দৌর্বল্য n. spermatorrhoea. ̃দ্রাবক n. borax. ̃নিঃস্রব n. a flowing out of molten metal, lava; a flowing out of semen. ̃পাত্র n. a metal vessel. ̃পোষক a. nourishing, nutritive. ̃বল্লভ n. borax. ̃বিজ্ঞান, ̃বিদ্যা n. metallurgy. ̃বিদ n. metallurgist. ̃ময় a. full of or made of or impregnated with metal, metallic or mineral. ̃মল n. rust. ̃মাক্ষিক n. sulphate of iron or pyrite. ̃রূপ n. conjugation. ̃লেপন n. plating. 72)