(p. 721) barṣā the rainy season, the rains; rain; rainfall. v. poet. form of বর্ষণ করা (see বর্ষণ). ̃কালীন a. happening during the rainy season; rainy. ̃গম n. the break of the monsoon. ̃তি1 n. an umbrella; a raincoat, a mackintosh, a waterproof. ̃তি2 a. grown in the rainy season. n. a room on the roof. বর্ষাত্যয় n. termination of rain or of the rainy season, autumn. ̃ধৌত a. washed by rain. ̃বসান n. same as বর্ষাত্যয় । 121)

(p. 740) bāṇijya trade, commerce, traffic. বাণিজ্য করা v. to trade, to traffic. বাণিজ্য কর n. a commercial tax. ̃কেন্দ্র n. a trade centre. ̃তরি n. a merchant ship, a merchantman. ̃পোত same as বাণিজ্যতরি । ̃মন্ত্রক n. the Ministry of Commerce. ̃মন্ত্রী n. a Minister of Commerce. বাণিজ্য সামগ্রী n. merchandise; ware, commodity; stock-in trade, requisites for a trade. বাণিজ্যিক a. commercial. 13)

(p. 721) baẏōguṇa tendencies or propensities natural to a particular age. 39)

(p. 713) bakarida a Muslim festival commemorating Ibrahim's (cp. Abraham) sacrifice of his own son to God. 33)

(p. 715) baṭuẏā a small purselike bag made of cloth. 42)

(p. 794) byāṭa a circket-bat, a bat; a tennisracket or a badminton-racket. ব্যাট করা v. to bat. ̃বল n. (the game of) cricket. 67)

(p. 721) barnā, barnānō (poet.) to describe, to narrate, to delineate, to depict. 113)

(p. 767) billi the cat. 101)

(p. 721) bapaka a sower; a planter. 16)

(p. 765) bibhāga division; partition: apportionment; distribution; a division (of a country etc.); a part, a portion, a section; department (বিচারবিভাগ). বিভাগ করা v. to divide; to partition; to apportion; to distribute. বিভাগী a. fissile. বিভাগী-ছত্রাক n. a fission fungus. বিভাগীশৈবাল n. a fission alga. বিভাগীয় a. divisional, sectional; departmental (বিভাগীয় কর্তা = the departmental head, বিভাগীয় বিপণি = a departmental store). 35)

(p. 779) buḍ়ō old, aged (বুড়ো লোক); very old, ancient (বুড়ো বট); overmature, overdeveloped (বুড়ো পাঁঠা); prematurely grown-up; purely (বুড়ো খোকা); precocious. n. an old man. বুড়ো হওয়া v. to grow old; to grow old prematurely; to become a veteran (মিস্ত্রিগিরিতে বুড়ো হওয়া). বুড়ো বুড়ো ludicrously elderly (বুড়ো বুড়ো চালচলন); precocious (বুড়ো বুড়ো কথা). 27)

(p. 746) bārōmāsī, bārōmāsyā the versified account of the weal and woe (usu.) told by a woman; the tale of weal and woe.

(p. 721) bān̐ṭula a small ball (usu. of iron and used as a missile); (iron.) a short and fat man, a dumpy. 268)

(p. 743) bādha2 a flood, a deluge; a kind of tidal wave, a bore, an eagre (গঙ্গার বান); (fig.) a great flourish (আনন্দের বান). বান ডাকা v. to rise in flood, to be in flood or deluge; to rise in bore or eagre; (fig.) to flourish greatly. বানে ভেসে যাওয়া v. to be swept off or carried off in a flood; to be overflooded. 5)

(p. 756) bidala having no petal, apetalous; not belonging to one's party. n. pigeonpea, dal. 49)