(p. 847) mahiṣī a queen; the chief queen of a king; a female buffalo. 33)

(p. 885) maulabi (Mus.) a Mohammedan scholar or teacher. 17)

(p. 828) makāi maize. 13)

(p. 864) māsōhārā a monthly (monetary) allowance or stipend. 26)

(p. 852) mānata a promise to offer a particular sacrifice to a deity on fulfilment of a prayer, a vow. 98)

(p. 839) mandāra (myth.) a celestial tree or its flower; the coral tree. ̃মালিকা n. a wreath or garland of mythological mandar (মন্দার) flowers. 31)

(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)

(p. 844) malama an ointment, an unguent; a balm. 13)

(p. 852) mācha fish. মাছ ধরা v. to catch fish, to fish. নদীর মাছ a river fish, a fresh-water fish. নোনা মাছ salted fish. নোনা জলের মাছ a salt-water fish. পুকুরের মাছ a fish reared in a pond. শুঁটকি মাছ dried fish. সমুদ্রের মাছ a marine fish. মাছের কাঁটা a fish-bone. মাছের ঘেরি fishery. মাছের চাষ pisciculture. মাছের ঝুড়ি a fish-creel. মাছের ডিম spawn (of fish). মাছের পুকুর a fish-pond, a fish-stew, a stew-pond, a piscina. মাছের বাজার a fish-market. মাছের ভেড়ি a fishy dam, a fishery. ̃ওয়ালা n. fishmonger; (loos.) a fisherman. fem. ̃ওয়ালি n. a fishwife, a fish-woman; (loos.) a fisherwoman. মাছধরা জাহাজ a trawler. মাছধরা জাল a fishing net. মাছধরা নৌকা a fishing boat; a trawler. ̃ভাজা n. fried fish, fishfry. 19)

(p. 839) maẏanā1 a bird of the starling family, the myna, the hill mynah, Gracula religiosa. 46)

(p. 867) miśa1 inky, as dark as ink; very dark. ̃মিশ int. expressing: inky blackness or darkness. ̃মিশে a. as dark as ink; pitch-dark, very dark. 13)

(p. 839) maẏūra the peacock. ̃কন্ঠী a. peacockblue. n. a peacock-blue sari or shawl. ̃চূড়া, ̃শিখা n. peacock's crest. ̃পঙ্খি n. a boat shaped like a peacock. ̃পাখা n. a hand-fan made of the feathers of a peacock's tail. ̃পুচ্ছ n. the peacock's tail or feather. ̃শাবক n. a pea-chick. ময়ূরী n. fem. the pea-hen. 53)

(p. 866) miniṭa the sixtieth part of an hour or of a degree, a minute; a moment. মিনিটে মিনিটে adv. every minute, every moment; repeatedly; at short intervals. 19)

(p. 886) mriẏamāṇa (ori.) dying, moribund; (pop.) glum, melancholy, deeply distressed, sorrowful. fem. ম্রিয়মাণা । 14)

(p. 864) mālinī of মালী (n. & a.). 3)