(p. 831) madhya the middle; the centre; the waist; the inside or interior; midst; interval. a. middle, central, mid; interior, inside; intervening, interim, mean; middling, mediocre; medium. মধ্য উষ্ণতা mean temperature. ̃ক a. (arith.) mean. n. (arith.) a mean. ̃কর্ণ n. the middle ear, (loos.) the tympanum. ̃কাল n. (astr.) the meantime. ̃কোণ n. (astr.) the mean anomaly. ̃ক্ষীণা a. fem. having a slender waist. ̃গ a. of the middling state, mean. fem. ̃গা । ̃গমন n. (astr.) culmination. ̃চ্ছদা n. (physio.) the diaphragm. ̃তল n. (astr.) the meridian plane. ̃ত্বক n. (bot.) mesocarp. ̃দিন n. (arch.) midday, noon. ̃দেশ n. the middle or central part; the waist; the interior or inside; Central India. ̃পদলোপী n. (gr.) a mode of framing compound words by deleting the word in the middle of other two. ̃পর্দা, ̃পরদা n. the middle lamella. ̃পন্হা n. the middle course; the golden mean. ̃পন্হী a. & n. moderate, (a person) avoiding extremes and following or pursuing the middle course or the golden mean. ˜প্রাচ্য n. the Middle East; countries of the Middle East. ̃বয়স্ক a. middle-aged. fem. মধ্যবয়স্কা । ̃বর্তিতা n. the state of being in the middle; the state of being inside; intermediacy; intervention; mediation. ̃বর্তী a. situated or stationed in the middle or inside or in the midst; intermediate; intervening; medial; mediating. fem. ̃বর্তিনী । ̃বর্তী নিযুক্তক a handling agent. মধ্যবর্তী হওয়া v. to lie in or go into the middle; to intervene; to mediate. ̃বিত্ত a. middleclass, bourgeois. মধ্যবিত্ত-মনোবৃত্তি n. middleclass mentality; (esp. pol.) petty bourgeois mentality. মধ্যবিত্ত-সম্প্রদায় n. the middle class, the bourgeoisie. ̃বিধ a. middling, mediocre. ̃বিন্দু n. the centre. ̃ভারত n. Central India. ̃মণি n. a jewel at the centre of anything; (fig.) the most glorious or precious or prominent person or thing. ̃মান n. an Indian musical measure. ̃যুগ n. the Middle Ages. ̃যুগীয় a. mediaeval. ̃রাত্র n. midnight. ̃রাত্রে adv. at midnight, at dead of night. ̃রেখা n. (geog. & astr.) the meridian; (geom.) a median. মধ্যশিক্ষা পর্ষত্ The Board of Secondary Education. ̃শিরা n. (bot.) the midrib. ̃স্হ a. of the interior or inside; inner; lying inside or in the interior; lying in the midst; intermediate, medial; intervening; mediating; intermediary. n. a mediator; an arbitrator, an arbiter; an intermediary, a middleman, a go-between. fem. ̃স্হা । মধ্যস্হ ন্যায়ালয় an arbitral tribunal. ̃স্হতা n. mediation; arbitration. মধ্যস্হতা করা v. to mediate; to arbitrate. ̃স্হল n. the middle; the centre; the inside, the interior; the midst. ̃স্হিত a. lying inside or in the interior; lying in the midst. 47)

(p. 830) mañjuri sanctioning, approving, permitting, accepting (মঞ্জুরি দস্তখত). মঞ্জুরি কমিশন grants commission. 17)

(p. 863) mālā1 a fisherman by caste. 14)

(p. 846) maśalā spices; ingredients; materials (গল্পর মশলা); mortar (গাঁথনির মশলা). ̃দার a. spicy. মশলা মেশানো v. to mix spices or mortar. 4)

(p. 831) manastattba psychology. মনস্তাত্ত্বিক a. psychological. n. a psychologist. 73)

(p. 839) mabalaga total, round; cash. মবলগ শ টাকা a round sum of one hundred rupees. মবলগ টাকা cash money. মবলগে adv. in all; on the whole. 40)

(p. 874) mumūrṣu (ori. but rare) desirous of dying; (pop.) about to die, dying, moribund. মুমূর্ষ দশা dying state. মুমূর্ষাবস্হায় adv. in a dying state; on the point of death. 20)

(p. 851) māila a mile. ̃পোষ্ট n. a mile-stone, a mile-post. 22)

(p. 852) mārabēla marble; a little hard ball (ori. made of marble) used by boys in play, a marble. মারবেল-পাহাড় n. a marble rock.

(p. 852) mātrā amount, measure, degree (শীতের মাত্রা); a dose (ওষুধের মাত্রা); limit (মাত্রাহীন লোভ); a horizontal straight line put over the consonants and some vowels of the Bengali alphabet; either of the measures long and short into which the letters of the alphabet are grouped; (pros.) a unit for measuring syllables (esp. in Sanskrit verses); a unit of division in Indian musical measure; (math.) dimension; (phys.) mass; (phys.) a unit of measure. মাত্রা ছাড়ানো v. to go beyond the limit of (decency etc.) ̃জ্ঞান, ̃বোধ n. sense of proportion. ̃তত্ত্ব n. (med.) posology. ̃বৃত্ত n. (pros.) a system of metrical measure depending on differentiating alphabetical letters into long and short. ̃হীন a. limitless, boundless. 65)

(p. 831) maṭha a monastery or a nunnery, a convent; an abbey; a shrine, a temple; an academy; a sweetmeat made of congealed sugar shaped like a temple. ̃ধারী, মঠাধিকারী, মঠাধ্যক্ষ n. a head of a monastery or convent, an abbot. fem. ̃ধারিণী an abbess. 3)

(p. 872) muñja a kind of grass from which cords are made. 28)

(p. 882) mōdaka a ball-shaped sweetmeat (usu. made of posset); an invigorating (and also intoxicating) drug made of hempleaves; a confectioner. 27)

(p. 874) murida (Mus.) a devout person. 28)

(p. 879) mēṭē2 made of clay or earth (মেটে পুতুল); mud-built (মেটে ঘর); plastered with clay or terra-cotta (দোমেটে); of earthy complexion, mud-coloured. মেটে সাপ a non-venomous mud-coloured snake. 17)