পিছ, পিছন : (p. 647) picha, pichana the back; the backside, the rear; (fig.) the past. পিছনে চলা v. to go or move backwards; to retrograde; to return or recede. পিছনে চাওয়া, পিছনে দেখা v. to look to one's own back; to look back; (fig.) to look to or consider the past. পিছন পিছন, পিছনে পিছনে on the back of, at the heels of. পিছন ফেরা v. to turn back; to look back; (fig.) to look to or consider the past. পিছটান, পিছনটান n. (lit.) a pull from the back; (fig.) attachment to one's family circle which retards or impedes one's progress. পিছপা a. taken aback, recoiled; reluctant. পিছপা হওয়া v. to be taken aback, to recoil, to flinch (in fear, pain etc.); to be reluctant. পিছমোড়া a. pinioned at the back. পিছমোড়া করে বাঁধা to pinion one at one's back. পিছনে লাগা v. to tease or vex (somebody); to make fun playfully or annoyingly. 43)

(p. 678) pratihāra a gate or a door; a doorkeeper, a gateman, a porter (fem. porteress portress), a janitor (fem. janitrix, janitress); an armed guard stationed at a door or a gate, act of giving up, abandonment, avoidance; a race of ancient India. প্রতিহারী n. an armed guard stationed at a door or a gate; a doorkeeper, a gateman, a porter. fem. প্রতিহারিণী । 46)

(p. 638) pāti1 address, whereabouts. 45)

(p. 654) putula a doll, a puppet, a marionette; an instrument in another's hand; one who acts just as another tells him, a cat'spaw, an idol. ̃খেলা n. a children's (esp. girls') play in which an imaginary house-hold is built up with puppets as its members; (fig.) a meaningless action, a children's play; a triviality. ̃নাচ n. a puppet-show, a puppet-play. পুতুলনাচিয়ে n. a puppet-player. ̃পুজো n. (sarcas.) idolatry. (পরের) হাতের পুতুল a puppet in another's hand, a cat's-paw. 17)

(p. 638) pāṭhikā of পাঠক (see পাঠ). 4)

(p. 628) paryāẏa a turn; serial order; succession; state, condition, shape, form, series (নবপর্যায়); a generation (আদিপুরুষ থেকে সাতাশের পর্যায়); a synonym (usu. পর্যায়শব্দ); (chiefly in sc.) a period (usu. পর্যায়কাল). ̃ক্রমে adv. by turns; serially; successively; alternately. ̃চ্যুতি, ̃ভঙ্গ n. a break in the series, a break in periodicity; inversion. ̃শব্দ n. synonymous words; related or cognate words. ̃সম a. rhyming alternately. ̃সারণি n. (chem.) a periodic table. 23)

(p. 678) pratiyōddhā an opponent in duelling, an antagonist, a rival. 17)

(p. 654) puru thick; fat; having a specific number of folds (সাতপুরু কাপড়). 53)

(p. 633) pācanabāḍ়i a truncheon for driving cattle. 54)

(p. 625) pariyāṇa traffic; migration. পরিযাণ নির্বাহক, পরিযাণ ব্যবস্হাপক n. a traffic manager. পরিযাণ আরক্ষী n. traffic police. 14)

(p. 615) paramāṇu an atom. পরমাণু-অঙ্ক n. (phys.) an atomic number. পরমাণু তত্ত্ব, ̃বাদ n. the atomic theory; (phil & psy.) atomism. ˜তাত্ত্বিক, ̃বাদী n. an atomist. a. atomistic. পরমাণু তাপ n. (phys.) atomic heat. পরমাণু বোমা n. the atom bomb. পরমাণু ভার n. (phys.) atomic weight. 54)

(p. 666) pōḍ় a spell of burning or scalding or singeing; affliction, distress; a severe ordeal. পোড় খাওয়া v. to get burnt or scalded or singed. পোড়-খাওয়া a. burnt, scalded, singed; passed through an affliction or distress or a severe ordeal. 21)

(p. 615) paraniṣēka cross-fertilization; cross-impregnation. 29)

(p. 692) prācīra a wall; a rampart; a parapet. ̃চিত্র n. wallpainting, a drawing on the wall. ̃পত্র n. a wallpaper, a wall magazine. ̃বেষ্টিত a. enclosed with a wall, walled (প্রাচীরবেষ্টিত নগর). 23)

(p. 638) pāṇḍā a Brahman priest acting as a guide to pilgrims at holy places; (dero.) a leader, a ring-leader. 21)

(p. 601) pan̐ciśa twenty-five. পঁচিশে a. (of the days of a month) twenty-fifth. n. the twenty-fifth day of a month, the twenty-fifth. 9)