(p. 1) a1 the first vowel of the Bengali alphabet. অ আ (বা অ আ ক খ) elementary knowledge; rudiments of any subject (সংগীতের অ আ ক খ); the alphabet (অ আ শিখছে); A B C. 2)

(p. 2) akṣi the eye. ̃কাচ n. lens. ̃কোটর n. the socket of the eye. ̃গত a. lying within the range of vision; visible. ̃গোলক n. the eyeball. ̃তারকা, ̃তারা, ̃কূট n. the pupil of the eye, the apple of the eye. ̃পক্ষ্ম n. eyelash, cilium. ̃পট n. the retina. ̃পটল n. cataract of the eye. ̃পুট n. the eyelid. ̃বিকূর্ণন n. casting of a sidelong glance; squinting. ̃বিভ্রম n. optical illusion. ̃শালাক্য n. ophthalmic surgery. 98)

(p. 17) atyutkaṭa most severe or terrible; extremely violent; most uncouth; bizarre. 4)

(p. 85) asaṃyōga absence of union or connection or relation or communication or contact. 11)

(p. 40) antardaśā secondary influence of different planets. 16)

(p. 26) anāsṛṣṭi outside the created world, unnatural; disorderly; queer, strange, bizarre. n. such a thing or incident or state. 85)

(p. 26) anārtabā not yet attained puberty. 76)

(p. 90) asmāra amnesia. 86)

(p. 36) anurādhā the seventeenth of the twenty-seven zodiacal stars in Hindu astronomy. 12)

(p. 9) ajijñāsita unasked; without being questioned. 96)

(p. 63) abyabahāra non-use; non-application; disuse, desuetude. 5)

(p. 63) abhiprāẏa desire; intention, design, purpose, object, aim; significance, purport, meaning; opinion. 85)

(p. 46) aparicita not familiar; unacquainted, unknown; unfamiliar; strange. fem. অপরিচিতা । অপরিচিত ব্যক্তি an unknown person; a stranger. অপরিচিতি n. non-acquaintance; incognizance; lack of knowledge (in or of), ignorance; unfamiliarity; strangeness. 20)

(p. 90) asubidhā inconvenience, disadvantage; incommodiousness; discomfort; difficutly, trouble; hindrance; impediment. ̃জনক a. inconvenient, disadvantageous; incommodious; difficult; troublesome. 13)

(p. 48) apāṅktēẏa debarred from dining together with the members of one's own caste; socially cast out; outcaste. 28)