bahak·nā vi to go astray, to wander: वह अपने विषय से बहक गया he wandered away from his subject; बहका-बहका incoherent; बहककर बोलना to talk incoherently. [vt बहकाना, n. बहकावा]

babūl mc acacia tree, babul: ~ की दातुन twig-brush of --; ~ के काँटे thorns of --. △ बोये पेड़ बबूल के आम कहाँ से खाये if you grow --s, you cannot get mangoes thereof; as you sow so shall you reap.

bīṛā mc [also पान का ~] folded and seasoned betel leaf: ~ देना to offer a --; ~ लेना to take a --; ~ डालना/रखना to put a --; △ to give a challenge, to call for undertaking a difficult task; ~ उठाना to take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge.

beman adv reluctantly.

bad·nīyat a ill-intentioned [ठेकेदार contractor, नौकर employee].

bad- pref. ill- [as in] ~ - क़िस्मत ill-fated, ~ तमीज़ ill-mannered, ~ नाम ill-famed, बदहज़मी indigestion, etc.

-bandī suff. -binding, -shutting [as in] गुटबंदी (binding people in groups) groupism, नाकेबंदी shutting up a passage, blockade, etc.

¹ bãg·lā a Bengali [पान betel- leaf, भाषा language, मिठाई sweets].

bāṛ fu hedge, fence: बग़ीचे की ~ -- about the garden; काँटेदार तारों की ~ fencing of barbed wire; ~ लगाना to enclose with a --.

bechārā I. a helpless, poor, unfortunate [कुत्ता dog, लड़का boy]; बेचारी बूआ (चिड़िया, बिल्ली) the -- aunt (sparrow, cat); बेचारे नन्हे-नन्हे बच्चे the -- little children. II. mc the poor fellow: ~ गिरा और मर गया -- fell down and died.