(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. 542) dhībara a fisherman (by trade or caste), a fisher. fem. ধীবরী n. a fisher-woman; a fishwife, a fish-woman. 8)

(p. 543) dhunā2 to clean cotton by shredding it with a bow or a cotton-gin; (sl.) to give a sound drubbing. 7)

(p. 543) dhūma smoke, fume, vapour, steam, gas; (loos.) mist, fog. ̃কুন্ডলী n. a ring or coil of smoke. ̃কেতু n. a comet. ̃নালী, ̃পথ n. a pipe or conduit for the escape of smoke, fume, vapour etc, a chimney; a fumarole. ̃নির্গম, ̃নির্গমন n. escape of smoke, vapour, gas etc. ̃পান n. smoking (cigars, cigarettes etc.). ধূমপান করা v. to smoke (cigarettes etc.). ̃পায়ী a. addicted to smoking. n. a smoker. ̃বিহীন a. same as ধূমহীন । ̃ময় a. full of or made of smoke, fume, vapour, gas etc.; smoky, fumy, vapoury, gaseous; (loos.) misty, foggy. ধূমল n. the colour of smoke, the dark purple colour. a. smoke-coloured, dark purple. ̃হীন a. smokeless, free from vapour or smoke. ̃হীনতা n. smokelessness. 28)

(p. 545) dhōn̐kā3 doubt, suspicion (ধোঁকায় পড়া); bewilderment, puzzle (ধোঁকা লাগা); hoax, hoodwink, deception, dodge (ধোঁকা দেওয়া). ধোঁকা দেওয়া v. to hoax; to hoodwink, to deceive; to dodge. ধোঁকা লাগা v. to have doubt or hesitancy; to be dazed or bewildered or puzzled. ধোঁকায় পড়া v. to be in doubt or suspicion, to be in a fix or dilemma; to be non-plussed. ̃বাজ a. given to hoaxing or hoodwinking or deceiving or dodging. ̃বাজি n. practice of hoaxing or hoodwinking or deceiving or dodging. ধোঁকাবাজি করা v. to hoax; to hoodwink, to deceive; to dodge; to practise hoaxing or hoodwinking or deception or dodging. 16)

(p. 545) dhōsā2 a thin chapati-like South Indian food. 24)

(p. 540) dhika fie.

(p. 545) dhriẏamāṇa that which is being put on or worn or assumed or held or touched or caught. 43)

(p. 532) dharitrī the earth; the world. 14)

(p. 545) dhaibata (mus.) the sixth note of the gamut. 12)

(p. 540) dhārā1 to owe (টাকা ধারা); to have any connection or concern with (কারও বা কিছুর ধার ধারা). 22)

(p. 540) dhāraka one who or that which holds or contains or bears or carries; one who assists and corrects a reader of scriptures at a ritual; one who makes another recite mantras, that is scriptural verses; (an) astringent. ̃তা n. capacity; astringency. ̃ত্ব n. capacity. 16)

(p. 532) dharmādharma virtue and vice, piety and sin; right and wrong. ̃বিচারশূন্য a. not discriminating between right and wrong, regardless of right and wrong; (loos.) unscrupulous. 19)

(p. 532) dharmāraṇya hermitage. 30)

(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)