برد barad बलीवर्द S̱. s. m. A bull, a bullock.

بغاره bug̠ẖāra P s. m. 1. A breach in a wall. 2. A deep wound, gash.

بـﮩاران bahārān P s. The spring.

بڙهنت baṛhant S̱. (from بڙهنا) s. f. Increase.

بدخشان badaḵẖshān P Name of a country famous for the production of rubies.

برتر bar-tar P adj. High, higher, superiour, excel- lent.

باک bāk P s. m. Fear. S. باک वाक् (r. वच Speak) bāk or vāk, s. m. Language, dialect, speech.

بين بين bain-bain A adj. Intermediate (between good and evil); middling, passable, indifferent, tolerable.

بند band P (Sans. बंध) s. m. f. A fastening, a knot, a bond, imprisonment, arrest, captivity, a bandage, belt, roll, string, joint, knuckle; a sort of poetical composition or ode. adj. Fast- ened, bound; shut, stopped. (In compos.) Bound, armed, or part. act. (of بستن) Binding, binder. بندخانه band-ḵẖāna, s. m. A prison. بندباندهنا band bāndhnā, To restrain an inunda- tion with dykes. بندبندپکڙنا band band pakaṛ- nā, To seize (as rheumatism, &c.) all oneʼs joints. بندبيٿهنا band baiṭhnā, To succeed in an affair. بندپکڙنا band pakaṛnā, To object to the argu-

باجرا bājrā H s. m. A kind of grain so called, Indian corn. (Holcus spicatus).