(p. 438) ḍhāka1 a drum. ঢাক পেটা, ঢাক বাজানো v. to beat a drum; (fig.) to make public or announce publicly. ঢাকের কাঠি a drumstick; (fig.) an instigator. ঢাকের বাঁয়া useless appurtenances or paraphernalia; something merely decorative. ঢাকের বাদ্যি drum-beat. ঢাকের দায়ে মনসা বিকানো (fig.) to run insolvent in attempting to keep up appearances, to sell one's homestead to grease one's car. 18)

(p. 438) ḍhalaḍhala expressing: excessive looseness (জামাটা ঢলঢল করছে); loveliness (মুখ খানা ঢলঢল করছে); wideness or largeness (আঁখি ঢলঢল); engrossed or rapt state (ভাবে ঢলঢল); a. large or wide and expressive (ঢলঢল আখি); full of beauty or charm. ('ঢলঢল কাঁচা অঙ্গের লাবনি'). ঢলঢলে a. very loose-fitting (ঢলঢলে জামা); full of loveliness (ঢলঢলে মুখ). 13)

(p. 440) ḍhōka a gulp; gulping. ঢোক গেলা v. to gulp; to make a movement as of gulping something (esp. to express hesitation). 22)

(p. 439) ḍhākāi made or manufactured at Dacca (a district of Bangladesh). 3)

(p. 440) ḍhēn̐ḍ়sa the lady's finger, the kidneyvetch; (fig.) a good-for-nothing fellow; a worthless or do-nothing fellow. 11)

(p. 440) ḍhōla a tom-tom. ঢোল দেওয়া v. to announce or circulate by beating a tomtom. ঢোল পেটা v. (dero.) to beat a tomtom; (dero.) to make a loud noise (কথা বলছে যেন ঢোল পিটছে); to announce or circulate by beating a tom-tom; (usu. dero.) to make public. ঢোল হওয়া v. to be swollen in the shape as of a tomtom. নিজের ঢোল নিজে পেটা to beat one's own trumpet, to advertise oneself. ঢোলক n. a small variety of tom-tom. ̃শোহরত n. announcement or circulation by beating a tom-tom. 24)

(p. 439) ḍhiḍhi (usu. of disrepute, censure, scandal) loud noise or discussion, extensive publicity and reproach (ঢিঢি পরে গেছে). a. (usu. dero.) given extensive public reproach (ঢিঢিরব). ̃কার, ̃ক্কার, ̃রব n. extensive public censure and hooting; loud noise (of anything). 13)

(p. 438) ḍhākani a cover, a lid.

(p. 438) ḍh the fourteenth consonant of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 440) ḍhēn̐kura a belch, an eructation. ঢেকুর তোলা v. to belch, to eructate. 14)

(p. 440) ḍhun̐ḍ়ā to search; to traverse (দেশে দেশে ঢুঁড়ছে). 3)

(p. 440) ḍhōn̐ḍ়na act of searching or traversing. 20)

(p. 438) ḍhām̐i a species of large fish without scale, (cp.) the trout. 17)

(p. 438) ḍhaka1 shape, form, cut; pattern; style (কথা বলার ঢক). 4)

(p. 440) ḍhēpasā shaped like a mound; bulky or fatty but not strong and stout, flaccid (ঢেপসা শরীর). 15)