(p. 675) pratidāna a gift or payment in return of another; exchange; requital, requite; retribution; repayment; revenge. প্রতিদান দেওয়া v. to give in return or exchange; to requite, to retribute; to repay; to take revenge upon. ̃হীন a. unrequiting. 29)

(p. 619) paribāhī conducting. n. a conductor. 140)

(p. 605) paṭṭa a plank, a slab; a plate (তাম্রপট্ট); a wooden seat for sitting upon squattingly; a seat (রাজপট্ট); a throne (পট্টমহিষী); jute; silk, linen (পট্টবস্ত্র); a town, a city; a village (esp. a large one); a port; a turban; a scarf. ̃দেবী same as পট্টমহিষী । পট্টন n. a city, a town; a port. ̃বস্ত্র n. silk-cloth, linen. ̃মহিষী, ̃রাজ্ঞী n. the chief queen of a king, a queen consort. 20)

(p. 650) pilapā a thick pillar. ̃গাড়ি n. act of building or fixing or planting a pillar to mark out the boundaries. 40)

(p. 667) pōṣa2 taming, domestication; act of bringing under one's control, subdual. পোষ-মানা a. tame, domesticated; brought under control, subdued; habituated to obedience. পোষ মানা v. to become tame or domesticated; to come under control, to be subdued; to be habituated to obedience; (of a horse) to be broken. পোষ মানানো v. to tame, to domesticate; to bring under one's control, to subdue; to habituate to obedience; to break (as a horse). 18)

(p. 688) praśna a question; a query; interrogation; inquiry; a point at issue; a problem (বাঁচার প্রশ্ন); a disputed point. প্রশ্ন করা v. to question; to ask; to inquire; to interrogate; to set questions (as for examinees). ̃কর্তা n. a questioner; an inquirer; an interrogator; one who sets questions (as for examinees); a papersetter. fem. প্রশ্নকর্ত্রী । ̃পত্র n. a set of questions for the examinees, a paper. ̃বাণ n. questions that pierce or hurt like shafts or darts or arrows or missiles, questions piercing as a shaft, embarrassing or piercing questions. প্রশ্নবাণে জর্জরিত করা to ask too many or volleys of troublesome questions, to heckle. ̃বোধক a. denoting or signifying a question. ̃বোধক চিহ্ন n. note or sign of interrogation. ̃মালা n. a set of questions; (loos.) an exercise (for students). প্রশ্নোত্তর n. a question and its answer; a catechism. প্রশ্নত্তরী n. a catechism. 29)

(p. 650) pila2 the elephant; (in chess) the bishop. 37)

(p. 606) paṇya that which is to be or can be sold, marketable, saleable, salable. n. a commodity, an article for traffic, (pl.) merchandise; price, cost, charge, fare. ̃জীবী a. living on or engaged in trade or business. n. a trader, a tradesman, a merchant, a businessman; a dealer. ̃দ্রব্য n. a commodity; (pl.) merchandise, wares. ̃বীথি, ̃বীথী, ̃বীথিকা n. a row of shops; a market. ̃শালা n. a shop; a departmental store; a market; a manufactory. ̃স্ত্রী n. a woman of the street, a prostitute, a harlot. পণ্যাগার n. a warehouse. পণ্যাঙ্গনা same as ̃স্ত্রী । পণ্যাজীব same as ̃জীবী । 21)

(p. 678) pratisṛta (phys.) refracted. 40)

(p. 601) paṅkha (dial.—archi.) finial. 39)

(p. 684) prabandha an essay, an article; a dissertation; a treatise; sequence; a trick, a stratagem ('যতেক প্রবন্ধ করে নিশাচরগণে'). ̃কার n. an essayist. 7)

(p. 633) pān̐caphōḍ়na cumin-seed, black cuminseed, fenugreek seed, aniseed and parsley; these five kinds of spices collectively. 2)

(p. 649) piñjana act of opening out the fibres of cotton, wool, etc.; teasing; an apparatus for teasing. 4)

(p. 688) prasāra width; expanse; extent; expansion (বানিজ্যের প্রসার); spread (শিক্ষার প্রসার). প্রসারণ n. act of stretching (out); extension; expansion; spreading; spread; (phys.) dilatation, dilation. প্রসারণ করা v. to stretch (out); to extend; to expand; to spread; (phys.) to dilate. প্রসারাঙ্ক n. (phys.) the co-efficient of expansion or dilation. প্রসারিত a. stretched (out); extended; expanded; spread (out). প্রসারী a. extending; expanding; expansive; extensive; wide. সূদূর-প্রসারী a. far-reaching, widely extended, farflung (সুদূরপ্রসারী সাম্রাজ্য). 42)

(p. 673) prajā created beings, creatures; offspring, progeny, a descendant; citizens collectively, the people; a citizen; a tenant, a ryot; a subject; the public. ̃তন্ত্র n. a republic. ̃তন্ত্রী a. republican. ̃পতি n. (myth.) the creator or protector of all living creatures; Brahma (ব্রহ্মা); any one of the ten sons of Brahma (ব্রহ্মা); the butterfly. প্রজাপতির নির্বন্ধ an ordinance or regulation of the creator or protector of living creatures; (loos.) predestination in marriage. ̃পালক n. a ruler, a king. ̃পালন n. act of protecting or ruling the people. প্রজাপালন করা v. to rule over and look after the people. ̃পীড়ক a. oppressive, tyrannical. n. an oppressor; a tyrant. ̃পীড়ন n. oppression of subjects, tyranny. ̃বতী a. fem. having children or offspring. ̃বর্গ n. the whole body of subjects or citizens, the people; the tenantry. ̃বিলি n. act or system of leasing out land and houses on fixed rents and terms. ̃বৃদ্ধি n. multiplication of a race; increase or growth of population. ̃রঞ্জন n. endeavour to please the people or subjects. a. devoted to please the people or subjects. ̃শক্তি n. (pol.) the power of the people of a state, the popular power. ̃স্বত্ব n. the right of a subject (to land); the right of the people (to land). ̃হিত n. the wellbeing or good of the subjects. 6)