بهگتن bhagtan S̱. s. f. 1. Wife of a بهگت bhagat. 2. (ironically) A lewd woman, a prostitute, a whore.

باچهنا bāchhnā S̱. (r. वाछ Desire) v. a. To choose, to select. S. باچيه वाच्य (r. वच Speak) bāchya or vāchya, 1. s. m. A sentence (in grammar). 2. adj. Speakable, fit to speak.

بهاو bhāʼo H s. m. Price, value, rate: friendship.

بهلا bhalā S̱. (Sans. भद्र) adj. 1. Good, excellent, benevolent, kind, healthy, well, virtuous, right- eous, sound. 2. Strange, wonderful, admirable, comical, droll. بهلاآدمي bhalā ādmī, s. m. A person of respectability, a gentleman; (iron.) a silly fellow. بهلاماننا bhalā mānnā, To take well.

بهڙواٴي bhaṛūʼā-ī H (from بهڙوا) s. f. 1. Pandarism, pimping. 2. The wages of prostitution.

ببيک bibek S (विवेक from वि and r. विच Divide) s. m. Discrimination, judgment, dis- cretion.

بديادهر विद्याधर bidyādhar S or vidyā-dhara, s. m. A sort of demi-god or attendant in the celestial courts. (The Vidyādharas dance be- fore the assembled deities in Indraʼs heaven).

برانا birānā H v. a. To mock.

بري barr-ī A adj. Belonging to the dry land, to the forest or desert; wild.

بانا bānā S̱. s. m. 1. (वर्ण Colour, class) Habit, profession. 2. Fashion in dress, peculiar to in- dividuals or to bodies taken individually (so, regimentals may be called bānā); uniformity. 3. A kind of weapon. 4. A veil. 5. (वाणि Weaving) The woof in weaving. باناباندهنا bānā bāndhnā, To be ready, to be determined.