pradhān I. a (a) head [अध्यापक master, अध्यापिका mistress, डाकघर post-office, कार्यालय office]. (b) main [कारण cause, विषय subject. (c) chief: ~ लिपिक -- clerk; ~ सेनापति commander-in-chief. (d) प्रधान मंत्री prime minister; ~ उद्योग primary industry. [syn. मुख्य] II. mc chairman, president: सभा का ~ -- of an association.

lipibaddha a reduced to writing, written: ~ साहित्य -- literature; ~ करना to reduce to writing, to write down: मैंने उनका व्याख्यान ~ कर लिया I reduced his lecture to writing.