(p. 532) dharmōpāsaka devoted to or following a religion. n. a devotee (of a religion). 43)

(p. 532) dharmāsana a judgment-seat, a seat of justice; the bench. 34)

(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. 532) dharmārjana acquisition of virtue or piety. ধর্মার্জন করা v. to acquire virtue or piety. 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. 545) dhōbikhānā the washerman's house, the laundry. 20)

(p. 543) dhuma overmuchness, abundance, excess, wantonness, redundance, surfeit (গঙ্গাস্নানের ধুম, বিলাসিতার ধুম, বক্তৃতার ধুম); éclat, pomp (এবার পুজোয় বড় ধুম). a. terrible, hard, thick (ধুম মারামারি). 16)

(p. 540) dhārāpāta heavy and incessant rain; a book of arithmetical enumeration. 24)

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

(p. 531) dhapāsa expressing: a loud thud or thump as caused by the fall of a heavy body. ধপাস করে with a thud. 13)

(p. 540) dhāmanika arterial; nervous. 8)

(p. 532) dhānī (used chiefly as a sfx.) a place or residence or seat (রাজধানী) । 79)

(p. 545) dhōẏā to wash; to cleanse or scrub or scour with water; to wash and bleach; (of rivers) to inundate. a. washed; cleansed or scrubbed or scoured with water; washed and bleached. ধোয়ানি n. water or other liquids with which something has been washed; alluvial deposit; dregs. ধোয়ানো v. to cause to wash; to cause to cleanse or scrub or scour with water; to cause to wash and bleach. ধোয়া-পাকলা n. act of washing and scrubbing or scouring. 21)

(p. 529) dh the nineteenth letter of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 532) ̃dhātrī a progenitrix, a progenitress, a mother; a nurse-mother; a wet-nurse; a foster-mother; a midwife; a nurse; the Earth (esp. as conceived as mother of all created beings). a. fem. one who carries in the womb; one who bears. ̃পুত্র n. a son of a nurse-mother or wetnurse. ̃বিদ্যা n. midwifery. ধাত্রীবিদ্যা বিশারদ n. a midwife, a gynaecologist and obstetrician. 73)