[ h ] n the fourteenth consonant of the Bengali alphabet.

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[ ha
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] n affected or coquettish bearing or pose; dissimulation; affectation; shape, form, cut,
fashion, style, manner. a. fem. given to affectation; coquettish; dissimulating. n. such a
woman, a poseuse.

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[ haka
1
] n shape, form, cut; pattern; style ( ).

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[ haka
2
] int expressing: the noise of swallowing or gulping any liquid; the noise of heavy
movement of any liquid within a container. int. expressing : repetition of these noises; the
noise of swallowing or gulping repeatedly and quickly ( o).
k [ hakk ] n a large drum. , n. the sound of such a drum.
[ hana ] int expressing: a metallic sound as of a bell ringing or an empty vessel sounding.
int. expressing: repetition of this sound, ding-dong; absolute emptiness (D , ).
a. empty.

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[ hapa
1
] n shape, form, cut, fashion; a kind of song attended with slow dance current in
Bengal.

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[ hapa
2
] int expressing: a thudding noise as of a heavy body falling softly; the dull noise of
striking a soft and empty swelling or a flatulent belly.
, [ hapa hapa, haba haba ] int expressing: repeated and quick thudding noise;
the dull noise of repeatedly striking a soft and empty swelling or a flatulent belly.
[ hala ] n a slope, an incline; declivity; stream of water running down along the slope of a
mountain, a rapid ( ); flood-water (esp. that puts a river in spate).
[ halak ] a loose, slack.
[ halahala ] int expressing: excessive looseness ( ); loveliness (
); wideness or largeness ( ); engrossed or rapt state ( ); a. large or
wide and expressive ( ); full of beauty or charm. (' a '). a. very
loose-fitting ( ); full of loveliness ( ).
[ halat ] n extra quantity of any commodity added to the accurately weighed amount
(perhaps to ensure customer satisfaction).
[ hal ] v to incline forwards or backwards or sideways; to go down ( ); to
incline towards, to dote on ( ). n. scandalous behaviour (esp. in love);
objectionable familiarity or mixing; a scandalous affair. a. given to scandalous behaviour.
fem. v. to cause to incline; to behave scandalously. D v. to droop, to collapse
(from loss of muscular strength etc.).
u [ husa ] a very large or big, enormous, monstrous, huge.
i [ hmi ] n a species of large fish without scale, (cp.) the trout.

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[ hka
1
] n a drum. , v. to beat a drum; (fig.) to make public or announce
publicly. a drum stick; (fig.) an instigator. useless appurtenances or
paraphernalia; something merely decorative. drum-beat. (fig.) to
run insolvent in attempting to keep up appearances, to sell one's homestead to grease one's car.
, -gDgD [ hkahka, hkahka-gu gu ] n an attempt to conceal or hush
up; hush-hush state.
[ hkan ] n a cover; a lid; a veil; a blinker.
[ hkani ] n a cover, a lid.
[ hk ] v to cover; to veil; to screen; to envelop; to overcast ( ); to conceal, to hide;
to hush up; (usu. dero.) to countenance or to connive at. n. a lid; a cover; a veil; (usu. dero.)
connivance. a. covered; veiled; screened; enveloped; overcast.
i [ hki ] a made or manufactured at Dacca (a district of Bangladesh).
[ hki ] n a drummer. sd (lit.) to throw away or immerse the drummer with the
idol; (fig.) to lose or sacrifice everything; to let go the rope after the bucket, to throw the baby
out with the bathwater.
[ hmli ] n pleasantries, drolleries, jokes.

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[ hla
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] n a shield; a buckler.

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[ hla
2
] n a slope, a declivity, a descent. cp.
[ hl ] v to pour (d ); to cast, to mould ( ); to invest or spend esp. lavishly
( , D ); to confer (s ); to cause to flow out (
n k ). a. that which is poured ( ); cast, moulded; extensively outspread, large,
spacious ( , ); lavishly distributed ( ); permanent, standing ( hk).
i n. act of casting or moulding. a. moulded, cast (i ). i v. to mould, to cast.
i n. a caster. i- n. an iron foundry; a foundry.
o [ hl ] a extensively outspread, spacious (o , o ); distributed lavishly
(o ); permanent, standing (o hk).
[ hlhli ] n act of transferring a liquid repeatedly from one container to another by
pouring it; act of pouring and repouring a liquid into a container. v. to undo a thing and
then to do it afresh, to fashion anew, to recast.
[ hl ] n a shield-bearer; a soldier bearing a shield or buckler.
[ hlu ] a sloping or slanting downwards, declining.
[ hihi ] n (usu. of disrepute, censure, scandal) loud noise or discussion, extensive publicity
and reproach ( ). a. (usu. dero.) given extensive public reproach (). , k,
n. extensive public censure and hooting; loud noise (of anything).
[ hipa ] int expressing: a mild thudding noise as of a heavy body falling softly. p
to genuflect suddenly or quickly. int. expressing: repeated mild thudding noise;
palpitation or throbbing esp. in fear ( ).
[ hipi ] n a mound; a hillock; an artificial hill; a heap, a pile (DD ); a hill (ui
).

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[ hila
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] n a hard roundish lump esp. of stone or brick or clay. v. to pelt with these
lumps, to throw stones or brickbats.
, () [ hilmi, (kathya) hilmi ] n slackness, sluggishness, lack of enthusiasm
or spiritedness.
, [ hu, hu ] n act of butting (as by a goat etc.). , v. to butt; to put in appearance,
to knock ( n t ).
D [ hun ] n to search; to traverse ( D).
[ huhu ] int (also n.) expressing nothingness. found wanting when called
upon to prove (one's) worth; of no worth or value at the time of work or crucial test.
[ hula ] n an instance or act of nodding or stooping in drowsiness or intoxication; drowsy
stupor, drowsiness ( ). , , a. heavy with drowsiness or intoxication
( ); smitten with passion ('s '). , same as
[ hul ] v (dial.) to nod or stoop in drowsiness or intoxication.
[ huln ] v (obs.) to wave ( ); to rock or dangle ( ).
[ husn ] v to butt (as by a goat). n. act of butting one another; a crowded state in
which heads knock against one another. coll.
u [ hu ] n a wave; a billow, a surge; a ripple; u o v. to rise in waves or surges or ripples;
to wave, to surge, to ripple; u v. to dodge waves. u v. to move in waves or ripples,
to wave, to ripple. u v. to cause to rise in waves or surges or ripples, to surge, to ripple; to
swell up in waves or surges or ripples, to surge up. u-, u- a. wavy; undulating;
corrugated.
[ hnki ] n a kind of husking pedal operated in a seesaw manner. the fulcrum
of a husking pedal. n. a seesaw. n. an edible fern. , n. a room (usu. a cutcha one)
where the husking pedal is fixed. s o (fig.) an expert worker has to work even
in heaven; a drudge will drudge even in heaven.
D [ hn sa ] n the lady's finger, the kidney vetch; (fig.) a good-for-nothing fellow; a
worthless or do-nothing fellow.
D, D
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[ hn , hn i
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] n a drum, a tympan (D ); a proclamation by drum-beat
(D o).
D
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[ hn i
2
] n a kind of earring; a poppy-seed; a poppy pod or seed-vessel.
k [ hnkura ] n a belch, an eructation. k v. to belch, to eructate.
[ hpas ] a shaped like a mound; bulky or fatty but not strong and stout, flaccid (
).
[ hman ] a lewd, libertine, profligate; a species of non-poisonous snake.
[ hr ] n a cross-mark; a bobbin. i n. a cross-mark put instead of signature by an
illiterate person.
[ hri ] n a heap, a pile, a stack. v. to heap, to pile.
[ hl ] n a small lump or clod esp. of earth; a small brickbat. v. to pelt with a
small clod of earth or with a small brickbat.
D [ hn na ] n act of searching or traversing.
D
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[ hn
2
] n a non-venomous water-snake; (sarcas.) a person without personality and
power.
[ hka ] n a gulp; gulping. v. to gulp; to make a movement as of gulping
something (esp. to express hesitation).
[ hk ] v to go or come in or into, to enter ( , ); to be admitted into (
, ); to be taken in or employed, to enter ( ); to be driven in ( );
to be comprehended by ( ); to be put in or interpolated ( ). . v. to cause to
go or come in or into, to enter; to admit into; to cause to be taken in or employed; to drive in or
penetrate; to fix or let into ( ); to implant (in); to make one understand or
compre hend, to hammer in ( ); to put in or interpolate.
[ hla ] n a tom-tom. o v. to announce or circulate by beating a tom-tom.
v. (dero.) to beat a tom-tom; (dero.) to make a loud noise ( ); to announce or
circulate by beating a tom-tom; (usu. dero.) to make public. o v. to be swollen in the shape
as of a tom-tom. to beat one's own trumpet, to advertise oneself. n. a
small variety of tom-tom. n. announcement or circulation by beating a tom-tom.

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[ hl
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] a very loose-fitting ( ).
[ hsak ] a fat and flabby, flaccid.
[ hy ] a lanky.