(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)

(p. 532) dhastādhasti a scuffle or tussle or fray; a hard effort or struggle (অনেক ধস্তাধস্তির পর মাইনে বাড়ল). ধস্তাধস্তি করা v. to scuffle; to try or struggle hard. 54)

(p. 532) dharanā act of lying obstinately at one's door or at the temple of a deity soliciting or imploring something. ধরনা দেওয়া n. to lie obstinately at one's door or at the temple of a deity soliciting or imploring something. 8)

(p. 532) dhāpadhāḍ়ā gōbindapura (facet. or dero.) an obscure, contemptible and remote place, an out-of-the-way place. 86)

(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) dharmānuṣṭhāna performance of a religious or scriptural rite; rituals; practice of virtue; an act of piety. ধর্মানুষ্ঠাতা n. a performer of a rite; a ritualist; a virtuous or pious man. fem. ধর্মানুষ্ঠাত্রী । 24)

(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. 545) dhbaṃsa destruction; annihilation; wreck, wreckage; ruin; death; act of killing, slaughter (শত্রুধ্বংস); loss; obliteration, effacement (শরীর ধ্বংস); waste or squandering (অর্থধ্বংস); undeserving consumption (অন্নধ্বংস); demolition, devastation (গৃহধ্বংস, রাজ্যধ্বংস, নগরধ্বংস); depravation or corruption (চরিত্র ধ্বংস, ধ্বংসের পথ). স্মৃতি ধ্বংস n. loss of memory; amnesia. ধ্বংস করা v. to destory; to annihilate; to ruin; to kill, to slay; to obliterate or efface; to impair; to waste, to squander; to consume undeservingly; to demolish or devastate; to deprave, to corrupt. ধ্বংস হওয়া v. to be destroyed or annihilated, to perish; to be ruined; to die; to be killed or slaughtered; to be lost; to be obliterated or effaced; to be impaired; to be wasted or squandered; to be consumed undeservingly; to be demolished or devastated; to be depraved or corrupted. ধ্বংসক a. one who or that which destroys or annihilates or ruins or kills or slays or obliterates or effaces or impairs or wastes or squanders or consumes undeservingly or demolishes or devastates or depraves or corrupts. ধ্বংসন same as ধ্বংস । ̃নীয় a. destructible; perishable. ̃প্রাপ্ত a. destroyed; annihilated; wrecked, ruined; dead, gone to one's death; killed, slaughtered; obliterated, effaced; lost; impaired; wasted, squandered; demolished, fallen, devastated; depraved, corrupted. ̃মুখ n. jaws or verge of destruction or annihilation or wreck or ruin or death or impairment or fall or demolition or devastation or demoralization or corruption. ̃লীলা n. the sport of destruction or annihilation or wreckage or ruining or killing or demolition or devastation. ̃স্তূপ n. a pile of ruins, wreckage, debris. 27)

(p. 542) dhucani, dhucuni a wicker-basket for washing rice, fish etc. ধুচনি-টুপি, ধুচুনি-টুপি n. a straw-hat shaped like a wicker-basket. 17)

(p. 531) dhabala white (ধবলগিরি, ধবল আকাশ); grey (ধবল কেশ). n. the white colour; the grey colour; leucoderma. ধবলা a. fem. of ধবল । n. a white cow. ধবল-কুষ্ঠ n. leucoderma. ধবলাকার, ধবলাকৃতি a. looking white; white. ধবলিত a. made or turned white, whitened; turned grey (ধবলিত কেশ) ধবলিমা n. whiteness; whitishness. ধবলী n. a white cow. ধবলীকৃত a. made white, whitened. ধবলীভূত a. turned white or grey. 14)

(p. 542) dhutarā, dhutarō the thorn apple or its fruit or flower, the datura. ধুতরোর রস বা নির্যাস n. daturine. 20)

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

(p. 531) dhamilla (of a human being) a bun; (of a bird etc.) a hairy crest.

(p. 543) dhumba, dhumbā tall and corpulent, hefty. fem. ধুম্বি । 20)

(p. 540) dhāmāra an Indian musical measure or mode. 12)