(p. 951) śōdhana purification; sanctification, consecration; clearing or refining; rectification; amendment, correction; revision; reclamation; reformation; repayment; payment; acquittance. শোধন করা v. to purify; to sanctify, to consecrate; to cleanse or refine; to rectify; to amend, to correct; to revise; to reform. শোধনী a. fem. same as শোধক । শোধনীয় a. to be or capable of being purified or sanctified or consecrated or cleansed or refined or rectified or corrected or reformed or repaid or paid. 65)

(p. 939) śaśā the cucumber. 33)

(p. 944) śiraśchēda, śiraśchēdana decapitation, beheading. শিরশ্ছেদ করা, শিরশ্ছেদন করা v. to decapitate, to behead. 69)

(p. 942) śāna2 a paved or cemented floor. শান বাঁধানো v. to pave. 6)

(p. 951) śmaśru beard (of man's face). ̃মণ্ডিত a. covered with beard, bearded. ̃ল a. covered with beard, bearded. ̃শূন্য ̃হীন a. beardless. ̃শোভিত a. bedecked with beard, bearded. 100)

(p. 935) śabēbarāta a Muslim festival. 54)

(p. 942) śālagrāma, śālagrāma-śilā a black-geode worshipped as the symbol of Vishnu (বিষ্ণু). 42)

(p. 944) śiuli2 a man whose profession it is to incise the date-palm in order to obtain its juice. 25)

(p. 935) śabda a sound; a noise; a cry or call (পাখির শব্দ, কুকুরের শব্দ); a word. শব্দ করা v. to make a sound or noise; to cry or call. ̃কর, ̃কারী a. making a sound or noise; crying or calling. ̃কোষ n. a lexicon; a dictionary. ̃তত্ত্ব n. philology. ̃তরঙ্গ n. a sound-wave. ̃তাত্ত্বিক a. philological. n. a philologist. ̃দ্বৈত n. reduplication of words. ̃প্রকরণ n. orthography. ̃বহ a. conveying sounds or sound-waves. ̃বিন্যাস n. arrangement of words; (gr.) syntax. ̃বেধী var. of ̃ভেদী । ̃ব্রহ্ম n. the Supreme Being consisting of sound only (cp. Logos); the Vedas. ̃ভাণ্ডার n. the treasure of words; the total corpus of words of a language. ̃ভেদী a. capable of hitting the target by merely hearing the sound made by it. ̃যোজনা n. adding or supplementing words. ̃ময় a. full of sound; noisy; word. ̃শক্তি n. different imports of a word; the capacity of words for conveying significance, power of words. ̃শাস্ত্র n. the science of words; grammar; philology; branches of learning collectively. ̃হীন a. soundless; noiseless; speechless; silent. শব্দাতীত a. beyond words; not expressible in words. শব্দায়মান a. in the state of making sounds, sounding; resounding. শব্দার্থ n. the meaning of a word, a word-meaning. শব্দালংকার n. any one of the figures of speech based on sound, such as, alliteration, onomatopoeia etc. শব্দিত a. sounded; filled with sound; resounded. 55)

(p. 935) śaṅkha the conch; a conchshell (esp. one that is sounded by blowing); a conchbangle. n. & a. billion (1,,,). ˜চক্রগদাপদ্মধারী a. carrying a conch-shell, a discus, a mace and a lotus. n. an appellation of God Narayana. ̃চিল n. a species of white-breasted kite. ̃চূড় n. the kingcobra. ̃চূর্ণ n. conchshell powder. ̃চূর্ণী see শঙ্খিনী । ̃ধ্বনি, ̃নাদ n. the sound of blowing a conchshell. ̃ধ্বনি করা, ̃নাদ করা v. to blow a conchshell. ̃বণিক n. a dealer and worker in articles of conchshells. ̃বলয় n. a bangle for the wrist made of conchshell. ̃বিষ n. white arsenic, ratsbane. শঙ্খিনী n. a woman of the third of four sexual categories; the evil spirit of a woman who has died when her husband is still alive, a female ghoul (also শঙ্খচূর্ণী). 28)

(p. 942) śāmalā2 a kind of official turban (উকিলের শামলা). 18)

(p. 951) śuśuka the porpoise, the dolphin. 13)

(p. 951) śēja1 a bed. 35)

(p. 944) śāsānō to threaten. শাসানি n. threatening, a threat. 13)

(p. 939) śali a dry measure of corn. 28)