(p. 813) bhāratī Saraswati (সরস্বতী) the Goddess of speech; speech. 22)

(p. 802) bhakti devotion; worship; devoutness, piety; profound admiration; strong attachment or addiction; obedience; trust or faith or reliance; inclination or relish or appetite (খাবারে ভক্তি); earnest pursuit, devotion (পড়াশোনায় ভক্তি). ভক্তি করা v. to be devoted to; to worship; to admire profoundly; to follow faithfully; to have trust or faith (in); to rely; to have inclination or relish or appetite (for); to be earnest (in), to pursue earnestly. ̃গ্রন্হ n. a devotional book. ̃চিহ্ন n. a mark or sign of devotion. ̃তত্ত্ব n. the doctrine or cult of or a treatise on devotion or devoutness or piety. ̃পথ n. devotion (without knowledge or practice) as the only means of attaining salvation, the path of devotionalism. ̃পরায়ণ a. devoted (to); worshipful; devout; strongly attached or addicted (to); having profound admiration (for); reverent; having trust or faith (in), reliant; having inclination or relish or appetite (for); earnest, earnestly pursuing. fem. ̃পরায়ণা । ̃পরায়ণতা n. devotion; worshipfulness; devoutness; strong attachment or addiction; profound admiration; earnestness, earnest pursuit, ̃পূর্বক adv. with devotion; reverentially; with trust or faith or reliance; willingly or with pleasure (ভক্তিপূর্বক খাওয়া বা নেওয়া); earnestly (ভক্তিপূর্বক প়ড়াশোনা করা). ̃প্লুতচিত্ত n. mind steeped in piety. ̃বাদ n. the doctrine holding that salvation is attainable by means of devotion only (without knowledge and practice); devotionalism. ̃বাদী a. devotionistic, devotionalistic. n. a devotionist, a devotionalist. ̃ভরে same as ভক্তিপূর্বক । ̃ভাজন n. a reverend or venerable or adorable person or object. a. reverend; venerable; adorable. ̃ভাব n. devout or worshipful or devoted or reverential disposition of mind. ̃ভাবে adv. devoutly; worshipfully; devotedly; devotionally; reverentially. ̃মান same as ̃পরায়ণ fem. ̃মতী । ̃মার্গ same as ̃পথ । ̃মূলক a. devotional. ̃যোগ n. worship of God or effort to attain beatitude by means of devotion only (irrespective of knowledge or practice). ̃রস n. (rhet.) the sentiment of devotion. ̃শীল same as ̃পরায়ণ । fem. ̃শীলা । ̃শূন্য, ̃হীন a. devoid of devotion or devoutness; irreverent; having no attachment (to); having no trust or faith (in), unreliant; having no inclination or relish or appetite (for); devoid of earnestness or willingness. 5)

(p. 820) bhṛta salaried or wage-earning; replete, full. ভৃতক a. salaried or wage-earning. n. a salary; wages. ভৃতি n. salary; wages; maintenance; feeding; filling. ভৃতিভূক a. salaried or wage-earning. ভৃতিভুক সম্প্রদায় the salariat, the salaried class. 28)

(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. 816) bhirami sudden dizziness or daze; fainting; a swoon. ভিরমি খাওয়া, ভিরমি লাগা v. to be affected with sudden dizziness or vertigo, to be dazed suddenly; to faint, to swoon. 31)

(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. 810) bhācitra a photograph. ̃কর n. a photographer, a photoman. 6)

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

(p. 825) bhōṭa1 Bhutan. a. Bhutanese. 16)

(p. 813) bhābōdrēka awakening of an emotion or an idea or a thought. 10)

(p. 813) bhābinī a charming woman who is the embodiment of an idea or concept ('ভাবের ভাবিনী রাধা'); (dero. or facet.) an emotional or wanton woman; a woman. 3)

(p. 816) bhijā, bhējā to get wet; to soak with water or any other liquid; to soften by being steeped in water or any other liquid; (fig.) to soften emotionally (মন ভেজা). a. wet; soaked with or steeped in water etc.; containing water or vapour, damp, hydrous, vapoury (ভেজা বাতাস). ̃নো v. to make wet; to soak with or steep in water etc.; to soften by steeping in water etc. 17)

(p. 813) bhāẏā (in familiar addressing) a brother, a friend, a comrade. 18)

(p. 820) bhēka2 the frog. 33)

(p. 816) bhāsa1 the vulture; the cock. 2)