(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. 532) dhāḍ়i a dam of beasts (ধাড়ি ও বাচ্চা); (chiefly hum.) a mother of many children. n. (usu. masc.) (dero.) a leader or ringleader (চোরের ধাড়ি); (dero.) a grown-up person or child (ধাড়ির বায়নাও সবই নাকি?). a. grownup. (ধাড়ি ছেলে); inveterate (ধাড়ি শয়তান). 67)

(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) dhrubāṅka (alg.) a constant quantity, a constant.

(p. 532) dhāna paddy, rice (আমন ধান); measure of weight (= nearly 1 grain). আউস ধান autumn rice. আমন ধান winter rice. বীজ ধান n. paddy-seed. ধান কাটা v. to reap or harvest paddy-crop. ধান কাঁড়া same as ধান ভানা । ধান কাড়ানো v. to plough a paddy-field in order to remove weeds. ধান ঝাড়া v. to thresh paddy. ধান দিয়ে লেখাপড়া শেখা (fig.) to spend little for one's education; (fig.) to receive indifferent or scant education. ধান নেড়ে দেওয়া v. to re-sow or transplant paddyshoots in well-arranged lines; to stir paddy when it is husked by a husking pedal. ধান বোনা v. to sow paddy-seeds. ধানভাঙা, ধানভানা v. to husk paddy. ধানভাঙা কল a husking machine. ধান ভানতে শিবের গীত (fig.) an irrelevant talk or digression (often a ludicrous one). ধান মাড়ানো v. to thresh or separate paddy (from straw by making cows walk upon it). ধান রোয়া v. to transplant paddy-shoots. কত ধানে কত চাল (fig.) actual state or correct information, knowledge of what comes out of what; (fig.) consequence. পাকা ধানে মই দেওয়া (fig.) to do (one) irreparable harm; (fig.) to blast one's hopes when they are about to be realized. ̃খেত same as ধানজমি । ̃গাছ n. a paddy-plant. ধানগাছের তক্তা (fig.) a plank of grass, an impossible thing. ̃চারা n. a paddy-shoot. ̃জমি n. a paddy-field, a paddy-land. ̃দুর্বা n. paddy-grains and grass (used as auspicious articles in blessing). 75)

(p. 545) dhēẏānō (poet. or coll.) to meditate, to reflect; to recollect. 11)

(p. 543) dhūmāẏamāna emitting smoke, fume, vapour, gas etc.; fuming; smouldering. 31)

(p. 531) dhanēśa the lord or god of wealth; an appellation of Kuvera (কুবের), (cp.) Plutus, Mammon; a beautiful long-billed bird, the hornbill. a. very rich or wealthy, affluent, opulent. 4)

(p. 532) -dhara (used as a sfx.) bearing, carrying, holding ভূধর, শ্রীধর, হলধর. 2)

(p. 542) dhikkāra, dhikkāra act of crying fie upon. ধিক্কার দেওয়া v. to cry fie upon, to hoot. 2)

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

(p. 532) dharmādhikaraṇa, dharmādhiṣṭhāna a court of justice; a judge. 20)

(p. 545) dhēḍ়ānō to soil clothes by failing to retain motion of stool or urine; (fig.) to make a mess of; to bungle. 5)

(p. 532) dharmōpāsikā of ধর্মোপাসক । 45)

(p. 532) dhātrīẏa a nurse-mother; a wet-nurse; a foster-mother, a midwife; a nurse. 74)