(p. 721) bandhu a friend; a well-wisher; a benefactor, a patron; an ally; a comrade; an associate; a lover. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব n. friendship; amity; alliance. বন্ধুত্ব করা v. to make friends with. বন্ধুত্বপূর্ণ a. friendly; amicable. ̃নি n. fem. a female friend; a friend's wife. ̃প্রীতি n. love or affection toward a friend. ̃বর n. close or intimate friend; an affectionate way of addressing or referring to a friend. ̃বান্ধব n. friends and relations. ̃বিচ্ছেদ n. estrangement or separation from friends; estrangement or separation from a friend. ̃সুলভ a. friendly. ̃হীন a. friendless. 9)

(p. 743) bāniẏā a trader; a tradesman; a shopkeeper; (dero.) a very commercialminded man, a commercialist; one guided only by profit and loss motive. 13)

(p. 721) bahbārambha a grand or fussy preparation. বহ্বারম্ভে লঘুক্রিয়া much cry but little wool. 231)

(p. 786) bēlana, bēlanā rolling (esp. chapaties) with a roller; a rolling-pin; a cylindrical roller to roll chapaties; a cylinder. বেলনাকার a. cylindrical. 95)

(p. 756) bitala (myth.) the second of seven underworlds. 36)

(p. 794) byaktīkṛta expressed; revealed; manifested. 18)

(p. 740) bāḍ়ti growth or development or increase or aggravation or flourish (বাড়তি মুখে). a. surplus (বাড়তি মাল); extra (বাড়তি রোজগার); excessive, in excess (বাড়তি লাভ = excess profit). 3)

(p. 715) bacana speech; utterance; a saying, an adage, an apophthegm, a maxim; (gr.) number (একবচন = the singular number; দ্বিবচন = the dual number; বহুবচন = the plural number). ̃বাগীশ a. having the gift of the gab; eloquent, very talkative. ̃বিন্যাস n. art or mode of speaking; eloquence; arrangement of words or speech. বচনসর্বস্ব ব্যাক্তি a person of mere words, a wind-bag. বচনীয় a. speakable; blamable. 25)

(p. 748) bāsi washed; placed for washing; not washed or cleansed since morning (বাসি মুখ, বাসি ঘর); stale, not fresh (বাসি দুধ, বাসি খবর); used or made or collected etc. overnight (বাসি কাপড় বা ভাত বা মাল বা জল). বাসি করা v. to wash (কাপড় বাসি করা). বাসি বিয়ে solemnities to be performed on the morning following the wedding night. বাসি মড়া the body of a person dead overnight. 29)

(p. 743) bānacāla having the bottom ripped open (নৌকো বানচাল হওয়া); foiled, capsized, bungled (ফন্দি বানচাল হওয়া). বানচাল হওয়া v. to have the bottom ripped open; to fail, to be bungled, to miscarry, to end in a fiasco. 6)

(p. 748) bāsanta, bāsantika of spring or springtime, vernal. বাসন্তী a. fem. vernal; light orange-coloured (বাসন্তীবাস পরা). n. Goddess Durga (দুর্গা). বাসন্তীপূজা n. a spring-festival when Goddess Durga is worshipped. 17)

(p. 758) biddha pierced; pricked; perforated; bored. বিদ্ধ করা v. to pierce; to prick; to perforate; to bore. ̃পত্র n. (bot.) a perfoliated leaf. 11)

(p. 794) bōẏāla a kind of large fish akin to the flounder. 4)

(p. 786) bētāra1 tasteless, insipid; distasteful; (fig.) uninteresting, dull. 7)

(p. 748) bāhutra, bāhutrāṇa an armour for the arm, an arm-plate. 52)