ছ¹ [ cha¹ ] n the seventh consonant of the Bengali alphabet.

ছই [ chi ] n a portable covering made of straw for a boat or hackery.

ছউই [ chui ] n the sixth day of a month. ☐ a. (of the days of a month) sixth.

ছক [ chaka ] n a check of a checker-board; a checker-board; a descriptive form (আবেদনের ছক); a plan usu. a detailed one (আক্রমনের ছক); a rough sketch, a roughcast plan or outline (গল্পের ছক); a prescribed or traditional shape; a pat tern (উপন্যাসের ছকে ফেলা). ̃কাগজ n. squared paper; graph paper. ̃কাটা a. marked with squares; checkered; marked with descriptive columns. ছক কাটা v. to draw squares; (fig.) to rough cast; (fig.) to make a preliminary plan; (fig.) to draft.

ছকড়া-নকড়া [ chakaḍ়ā-nakaḍ়ā ] n utter disregard or neglect, utter disorder; utter waste or wasteful ness. ☐ a. lying at sixes and sevens, ly ing pell-mell; utterly neglected or wasted. ছকড়া-নকড়া করা v. to waste by utter disregard or neglect; to waste ut terly; to throw at sixes and sevens.

ছকা [ chakā ] v to sketch or draft; to roughcast; to make a preliminary or draft plan; to chalk out, to draw.

ছক্কা¹ [ chakkā¹ ] n a spiced dish of vegetables cooked almost dry.

ছক্কা² [ chakkā² ] n a playing card marked with six pips.

ছক্কাই-পাঞ্জাই [ chakkāi-pāñjāi ] n tall talk. ছক্কাই-পাঞ্জাই করা v. to boast; to brag.

ছটফট [ chaṭaphaṭa ] int expressing restlessness, anxi ety etc. ছটফট করা v. to become restless; to fidget; to be impatient with eager ness; to be troubled with anxiety; to toss about. ছটফটানি n. restlessness; fidgetiness; impatience. ছটফটে a. rest less.

ছটরা [ chaṭarā ] n a small bullet; a grapeshot.

ছটা [ chaṭā ] n glow, shine, lustre; light; beauty, glamour, splendour (রূপের ছটা); se quence, serial, succession (শ্লোকের ছটা); a series.

ছটাক [ chaṭāka ] n a measure of weight (= 1/16 সের); a little over 58 grams; a measure of area (4.18 square-metre).

ছড়¹ [ chaḍ়¹ ] n hide, skin (হরিণের ছড়).

ছড়² [ chaḍ়² ] n a long slender bar of metal or other material, a rod; a stick; a bow of a musical instrument (বেহালার ছড়); a long scratching mark, a long scratch (গায়ে ছড় লাগা).

ছড়া¹ [ chaḍ়ā¹ ] v to get scratched or grazed or bruised or flayed; to strip the skin or bark from.

ছড়া² [ chaḍ়ā² ] n a rhyme (ছেলে-ভোলানো ছড়া = a nursery rhyme; গ্রাম্য-ছড়া = a folk rhyme); a set of things threaded to gether or arranged as if threaded, a string (গোটছড়া); a bunch, a cluster (একছড়া কলা); a spell of sprinkling or a solution for sprinkling (গোবর ছড়া). ছড়া কাটা v. to cap verses, to quote apt verses.

ছড়াছড়ি [ chaḍ়āchaḍ়i ] n scattering about negligently and profusely; state of being scattered about negligently and profusely; profu sion, abundance. ছড়াছড়ি যাওয়া v. to lie scattered about neglectedly and abun dantly; to go a-begging.

ছড়ানো [ chaḍ়ānō ] v to scatter about in a disorderly manner, to strew; to scatter (বীজ ছড়ানো); to sprinkle (জল ছড়ানো); to give out, to emit (গন্ধ ছড়ানো); to spread (রোগ ছড়ানো).

ছড়ি [ chaḍ়i ] n a slender stick; a stick; a bow of a musical instrument; a walking-stick; (bot.) a spike (খেজুর ছড়ি). ছড়ি ঘোরানো v. to brandish one's stick; (fig.) to lord it over (a person), domineer, command undesirably.

ছড়িদার [ chaḍ়idāra ] n a person who helps and leads pilgrims (usu.) on an uphill journey.