(p. 839) mantripariṣat ministers collectively, the ministry, the cabinet. 17)

(p. 852) mātṛ (in comp.) mother. ̃ক a. maternal; motherly; treated or fostered as by one's mother, mothered (নদীমাতৃক দেশ). ̃কল্প same as ̃তুল্য । ̃কা n. any one of a group of sixteen female deities; mother; one's mother's mother; a nurse; any one of the alphabetical letters; a matron. ̃কুল n. the mother's line, the distaff side. ̃গণ n. the eight divine female powers. ̃ঘাতক, ̃ঘাতী a. guilty of or relating to matricide, matricidal. ̃তুল্য, ̃তুল্যা a. deserving to be treated as one's mother; behaving as one's mother; motherly. ̃দায় n. the responsibility of performing the obsequies of one's deceased mother; (loos.) one's mother's death. ̃দায়গ্রস্হ a. charged with the onus of performing the obsequies of one's deceased mother; (loos.) in mourning for one's lately deceased mother. ̃দুগ্ধ n. mother's milk. ̃পক্ষ same as ̃কুল । ̃পূজা n. act of serving or adoring one's mother. ̃বত্ adv. (also a.) like one's mother. মাতৃবত্ পরদারেষু one should look upon another's wife as one's mother. ̃বিয়োগ n. mother's death. ̃ভক্ত a. devoted or deeply attached to one's mother. ̃ভক্তি n. devotion to one's mother. ̃ভাষা n. mother-tongue; vernacular. ̃ভূমি n. motherland, native land, mother-country. ̃রিষ্টি n. an inauspicious conjunction of planets in one's horoscope foreboding danger to one's mother's life. ̃শাসন n. matriarchy. ̃শাসিত a. matriarchal. ̃শ্রাদ্ধ n. the obsequies of one's deceased mother. ̃ষ্বসা same as মাতুঃষ্বসা । ̃ষ্বস্রীয়, ̃ষ্বস্রেয় n. a son of one's mother's sister or cousin-sister. ̃ষ্বস্রয়া, ̃ষ্বস্রেয়া a daughter of one's mother's sister or cousin-sister. ̃সম, ̃সমা same as ̃তুল্য । ̃সেবা same as ̃পূজা । ̃স্তন্য n. mother's milk. ̃স্তব, ̃স্তোত্র n. a hymn or incantation of the sublime female energy associated with the work of creation; a hymn or incantation of any female deity; a devotional hymn offered to one's mother. ̃হত্যা n. matricide. ̃হত্যাকারী same as ̃ঘাতক । fem. ̃হত্যাকারিণী । ̃হন্তা n. a matricide. fem. ̃হন্ত্রী । ̃হীন a. motherless. fem. ̃হীনা । 64)

(p. 843) marākānnā (lit.) loud wailing on account of bereavement; (fig. & pop.) intolerably loud wailing. 5)

(p. 843) mardā male. n. a male creature. মর্দানা n. a man (esp. a grown-up one); a. male; manly. মর্দানি1 n. (dero.) manliness or masculinity. মর্দানি2 n. fem. a tomboy, a hoyden. a. tomboyish, hoydenish (মর্দানি মেয়ে). মর্দানি করা v. to make an exhibition of manly vigour; to bravado; (of women) to behave in a masculine or mannish manner, to romp vigorously.

(p. 831) madhyōnnati (astr.) the meridian altitude. 55)

(p. 830) maṭaki a large earthen barrel or cask. 22)

(p. 828) mi a ladder (usu. one made of bamboo and rope); a harrow. মই দেওয়া v. to harrow (a field). 3)

(p. 831) madhyama middle; second in order of seniority or age (মধ্যমভ্রাতা = the second brother; মধ্যমপুত্র = the second son); (rare) intermediate, medial; middling, mediocre, moderate. n. the waist (সুমধ্যমা); (mus.) the major fourth of the C-scale. ̃পন্হা n. the middle course; (pol.) moderateness, moderatism. ̃পন্হী a. following the middle course; (pol.) moderate. ̃বয়স্ক a. middle-aged. fem. ̃বয়স্কা । মধ্যমা n. the middle finger; (geom.) a median. a. fem. second in order of seniority or age. মধ্যমাঙ্গুলি n. the middle finger. 49)

(p. 852) māku a shuttle (of weavers). 3)

(p. 862) mārā to kill; to strike, to hit (বল মারা); to beat, to flog; to drive in, to pierce (ছুরি মারা = to stab); to strike with (চাবুক মারা); to deal (ঘুসি মারা = to deal one a blow); to afflict or distress (কথায় মারা); to ruin (চুরিটায় আমাকে মেরেছে); to destroy, to exterminate, to eradicate (বিষ মারা); to dry or dehydrate (রস মারা); to implant, to drive in (পেরেক মারা); to affix (টিকিট মারা); to sew up (তালি মারা); to paste (লেবেল মারা); to close up, to fill up (ফাঁক মারা); to rob, to pick (পকেট মারা); to obtain by unfair means, to misappropriate, to defalcate (টাকা মারা); to win or earn esp. by a fluke (লটারি মারা); to deprive of (অন্ন মারা, রুজি মারা); to cause to lose (জাত মারা); (inf.) to eat or gobble (ভাত মারা); to shout (হাঁক মারা); to give out, to emit (জেল্লা মারা); to block, to obstruct (পথ মারা); to blunt, to dull (ধার মারা, কোণ মারা); to tuck (মালকোঁচা মারা); (inf.) to score (গোল মারা); to adopt, to have recourse to, to exhibit (চাল মারা). চাল মারা see চাল3 । মারা পড়া, মারা যাওয়া v. to be killed; to die; to be lost (বহু টাকা মারা গেছে) । 2)

(p. 847) mahiṣāsura (myth.) Mahisa (মহিষ) the demon. ̃মর্দিনী same as মহিষমর্দিনী । 32)

(p. 876) mūrchita fainted, swooned. মূর্ছিত হওয়া v. to faint, to swoon. 7)

(p. 852) mānē-bi a book of explanatory notes; a help-book, a key. 127)

(p. 864) māstula a mast (of a ship). 28)

(p. 838) manōbijñāna, manōbidyā psychology. মনোবিদ্যাগত a. psychological. মনোবিজানী n. a psychologist. 20)