(p. 852) mānāna fittingness; becomingness; propriety; decorousness, decorum; beauty. a. fitting; becoming; decorous. 119)

(p. 838) manōbhāba one's secret thoughts and feelings, one's mind; mental state; attitude; predisposition. 24)

(p. 844) malamala a fine cotton fabric. 14)

(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) mādhaba relating to honey; honeyed. n. Krishna (কৃষ্ণ) or Vishnu (বিষ্ণু). মাধবী, মাধবিকা, মাধবীলতা n. an evergreen creeper, (cp.) the myrtle. মাধবীকুঞ্জ n. a myrtle-bower. 82)

(p. 831) maḍ়ipōḍ়ā taking part in cremating the dead bodies of unrelated persons. n. such a Brahman (considered an outcast). 8)

(p. 852) māmuli hackneyed, trite, banal, stock; conventional, traditional, traditionally or conventionally fixed (মামুলি স্বত্ব); most ordinary, negligible, paltry (মামুলি ব্যাপার). 145)

(p. 847) -mahalā1 having a particular number of self-contained portions or parts of a building (সাতমহলা বাড়ি). 20)

(p. 852) māgadha of or relating to Magadha, Magadhan. মাগধী n. Magadhi, the Prakritic language which is considered the source of Hindi and Bengali. অর্ধমাগধী n. a kind of Magadhi (মাগধী) corrupted with mixture of several Prakritic dialects. 8)

(p. 852) māraka a pestilence, a plague. a. destructive; pestilential. 152)

(p. 828) mu, mau honey. মউ-আলু n. sweet yam. ̃চাক, ̃মাছির চাক n. a honeycomb; a beehive. ̃মাছি n. the bee. মউমাছির রানি a queen-bee. ̃মাছি পালন n. bee-keeping, apiculture. ̃লোভী a. fond of honey. 4)

(p. 874) muśakō jōẏāna (usu. (dero.) a strong and robust person. 36)

(p. 852) māgā to beg; to ask for; to solicit; to pray for. 11)

(p. 867) miśra mixed, blended; united; hybrid (মিশ্র জাতি); (math. & sc.) compound (মিশ্রভগ্নাংশ, মিশ্রযোগ). □ n. a mixture; (sc.) a compound. ̃ক n. a compounder; an ingredient of a compound. মিশ্রকবিদ্যা n. the art of compounding medicines. ̃পদার্থ n. a mixture; (sc.) a compound. ̃বর্ণ a. variegated. ̃সুর n. (mus.) a hybrid tune or mode. ̃ধাতু n. an alloy. 20)

(p. 839) manmatha (myth.) the Hindu god of love (cp. Cupid, Eros). ̃শরাহত a. wounded with the shafts of love; love-sick. 38)