(p. 808) bhā glow, radiance, shine, lustre; light; a beam, a ray. 8)

(p. 802) bharasandhyā full evening; advanced evening; far into the evening. 77)

(p. 802) bhanḍa feigning, pretentious; dissimulating, dissembling; hypocritical; deceitful; sanctimonious. n. a pretender; a quack, a charlatan; a dessimulator, a dissembler; a hypocrite, an imposter; a deceiver; a cheat; a sanctimonious person. ̃তা, ̃ত্ব same as ভণ্ডামি । ভণ্ডন n. deception; cheating. ভণ্ডানো v. (chiefly poet.) to deceive, to cheat, to hoodwink. ভণ্ডামি n. pretension, feigning; charlatanism, quackery; dissembling; imposture, hypocrisy; deceit; sanctimony. 40)

(p. 816) bhikha (coll.) alms. ভিখ মাগা same as ভিক্ষা করা (see ভিক্ষা). গেঁয়ো যোগী ভিখ পায় না (fig.) a prophet is never honoured in his own country; (cp.) familiarity breeds contempt. 16)

(p. 823) bhō1 ho, hoa, hullo. 23)

(p. 802) bharasā reliance, confidence, trust; faith; a prop, support; a shelter, a refuge; hope, expectation; strength or dependence (কোন ভরসার চাকরি ছাড়লে). ভরসা করা v. to rely on; to hope, to expect; to depend on. ভরসা থাকা v. to have reliance on or confidence; to have a hope, to have expectation. ভরসা দেওয়া v. to promise support or help; to encourage; to assure. 78)

(p. 816) bhāsā to float, to drift; to swim; to be buoyant; to be flooded (with) (বন্যায় দেশ ভাসা); to rise or strike or appear in, to occur to (মনে ভাসা); (fig.) to be overflowing. ভাসান n. immersion (as of an image of a deity); a kind of folksong celebrating activities of some deities (মনসার ভাসান). ভাসা-ভাসা a. shallow, superficial. ভাসা-ভাসা জ্ঞান indexlearning, skin-deep or superficial knowledge. ভাসানো v. to cause to float; to float; to levitate, to set adrift; to flood or overflow. 6)

(p. 823) bhō-m̐bhō denoting: dizziness মাথা ভোঁভোঁ; emptiness (পকেট ভোঁ-ভোঁ); great swiftness, whiz (ভোঁ-ভোঁ দৌড়); buzzing noise (কানামাছি ভোঁ-ভোঁ); repetition of ভোঁ sound. ভোঁ-ভোঁ করা to be filled with a ringing or humming sound (আমার কান ভোঁ-ভোঁ করছে = my ears are ringing). 29)

(p. 802) bh the twenty-fourth consonant of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 823) bhēda piercing; cleavage, split; difference; dissimilarity; disagreement, dissension; hostility; disunity; estrangement; antagonism, quarrel; separation; differentiation, discrimination; penetration (ব্যূহভেদ); disintegration; exposition, expounding, deciphering (অর্থভেদ); change, alteration (বুদ্ধিভেদ); a kind, a sort (রূপভেদ); looseness of bowels, diarrhoea. ভেদ করা v. to pierce, to cleave, to split; to differentiate, to discriminate; to penetrate; to expose, to expound, to decipher. ভেদ জন্মানো v. to sow dissension or discord; to disintegrate; to estrange. ̃ক a. one who or that which pierces or cleaves or splits or disintegrates or differentiates or discriminates or penetrates. ̃জ্ঞান n. perception of difference; discrimination; partiality. ̃ন piercing; cleaving; splitting; penetration. ̃নীয় a. capable of being pierced or cleft or split or penetrated, pregnable, vulnerable. ̃নীতি n. the policy of discrimination. ̃বমি n. diarrhoea attended with vomitting; cholera. ̃বুদ্ধি same as ̃জ্ঞান । ভেদাভেদ n. discriminatory treatment; discrimination; sense of meum and tuum (mine and thine). ভেদিত a. pierced; cleaved, split. ভেদী same as ভেদক । ভেদ্য same as ভেদনীয় । 12)

(p. 802) bhadra polished or elegant in taste or demeanour; (rare) civilized; courteous; polite; well-behaved, mannerly; amiable; suave; belonging to polished or high society; gentle, auspicious, propitious, salutary; honest, chaste. n. weal; welfare; Shiva (শিব). ভদ্র আচরণ gentlemanly conduct; good manners. ̃কালী n. a manifestation of Goddess Durga (দুর্গা). ̃তা n. polished or elegant taste or demeanour; courtesy, politeness; amiability; suavity; gentility; auspiciousness, propitiousness, salutariness; honesty, chastity; formality. ভদ্রতা করা v. to treat one courteously, to be formal with; to be suave. ভদ্রতার অনুরোধে, ভদ্রতার খাতিরে for courtesy's sake, for the sake of formalities. ভদ্রতাচরণ n. courteous or polite deportment or conduct, courtesy. ভদ্রতাবিরুদ্ধ a. discourteous, impolite, uncivil. ভদ্রতামূলক a. pertaining to courtesy, formal. ̃মহিলা n. fem. a gentle woman; a lady. ̃লোক n. a gentleman; a courteous or amiable man; an honest man. ভদ্রলোকের এক কথা (fig.) a gentleman or an honest man is always true to his words or promise. ̃সন্তান n. one coming of a respectable family; a gentleman. ̃সমাজ n. society of cultured or decent people. ̃স্হ a. (coll.) in the state of a gentlemen; gentlemanlike. ভদ্রা a. fem. of ভদ্র (a.). n. (astr. & astrol.) the second, seventh or twelfth day of a lunar fortnight (these days are considered inauspicious. ভদ্র পড়া v. (dial.) to be obstructed or hindered; to have an impediment or a hitch or a set-back. ভদ্রাভদ্র n. good and evil; respectable and disreputable. ভদ্রেশ্বর n. a manifestation of Shiva (শিব). ভদ্রোচিত a. gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; polite; courteous; gentle. 43)

(p. 813) bhāṣiṇī of ভাষী । 43)

(p. 823) bhairaba a manifestation of Shiva (শিব); an Indian musical mode. a. terrible or tremendous. ভৈরবী n. fem. one of the ten manifestations of Goddess Durga (দুর্গা); a famale ascetic worshipping Shiva (শিব); an Indian musical mode; a turbulent woman, (cp.) a termagant, (cp.) an Amazon. ভৈরবীচক্র n. a Tantrist drinking party. 22)

(p. 825) bhōgābhilāṣa craving for sensual pleasures. 3)

(p. 820) bhūmadhya the centre of the earth; the bowels or inside of the earth. ভূমধ্যসাগর n. the Mediterranean Sea. ভূমধ্যসাগরীয় a. Mediterranean. 13)