পিছে [ pichē ] prep at the back of; on the back of; towards the back of. ☐ adv. backwards; towards or in the past. পিছে পিছে on the back of, at one's heels, following, pur suing.

পিজবোর্ড [ pijabōrḍa ] n pasteboard.

পিঞ্জন [ piñjana ] n act of opening out the fibres of cotton, wool, etc.; teasing; an appara tus for teasing.

পিঞ্জর [ piñjara ] n a cage; the ribs; the thorax. পিঞ্জরাবদ্ধ a. incaged. encaged. পিঞ্জরাবদ্ধ করা v. to incage, to encage.

পিঞ্জিকা [ piñjikā ] n a skein or roll or wisp of carded cotton.

পিটনা [ piṭanā ] n a small cudgel for ramming the roof or the floor of a building, a rammer.

পিটপিট [ piṭapiṭa ] int expressing: twitching as of the eye, flickering as of a lamp, pee vishness, fastidiousness or mania for cleanliness. পিটপিট করা, পিটপিটানো v. (of the eye etc.) to twitch, to bat (an eyelid); (of a lamp etc.) to flicker; to behave peevishly or fastidiously; to show a mania for cleanliness. পিটপিটানি twitching as of the eye; flickering as of a lamp; peevishness; fastidiousness; a mania for cleanliness. পিটপিটে a. pee vish; fastidious; over-scrupulous; stickler; stricken with a mania for cleanliness.

পিটা, পিটানো [ piṭā, piṭānō ] v to strike, to beat (লোহা পিটানো); to pound, to batter, to ram (ছাদ পিটা); to whip up or switch, to thrash (ঝোপ পিটানো). ☐ a. beaten; rammed; thrashed; shaped by beating, wrought (পিটা লোহা). পিটাই, পিটানি, (pop.) পিটুনি n. act of beating or ram ming or thrashing; a drubbing (পিটুনি খাওয়া). পিটুনি পুলিশ punitive police. পিটুনি কর বা জরিমানা punitive tax, puni tive fine.

পিটালি [ piṭāli ] n a paste made of pounded rice, used as a cooking ingredient.

পিটিশন [ piṭiśana ] n a petition. পিটিশন করা v. to pe tition. ̃কারী n. a petitioner.

পিঠ [ piṭha ] n the back; the rear; immediate suc cession (পিঠে পিঠে); a surface or face (এপিঠ ওপিঠ); (in a game of cards) a trick. পিঠ চাপড়ানো v. to pat on the back; to drum one's back lightly, (idio.) to encourage patronizingly or with an air of superiority. পিঠের চামড়া তোলা v. to flog severely. পিঠে পিঠে back to back; on the back of; immediately succeed ing in birth, born next.

পিঠা [ piṭhā ] n a sweet pie, a kind of cake.

পিঠাপিঠি [ piṭhāpiṭhi ] adv. & a same as পিঠে পিঠে (see পিঠ).

পিণ্ড [ piṇḍa ] n a lump; a conglomerated mass; (loos.) anything ball-shaped, a ball; food offering to the manes of forefa thers; a lump of food; the body (as a conglomerated mass of পঞ্চভূত or the five elements). ̃খর্জুর, (coll.) পিণ্ডে খেজুর n. dates preserved in lumps, lump-dates. ̃দ, ̃দাতা a. scripturally authorized to give food-offering to the manes; giving food-offering to the manes; providing with food. ☐ n. such a man. fem. পিণ্ডদা, পিণ্ডদাত্রী । ̃দান n. the sacrament of food-offering to the manes. পিণ্ডদান করা v. to offer food to the manes. ̃লোপ n. extinction or ab sence of persons or descendants autho rized to offer food to one's manes; ex tinction of one's line of descent. ̃শরীর n. the body (as a conglomerated mass of পঞ্চভূত or five elements).

পিণ্ডাকার, পিণ্ডাকৃতি [ piṇḍākāra, piṇḍākṛti ] a shaped like a lump; round and lumpish.

পিণ্ডিত [ piṇḍita ] a shaped into a lump, conglomer ated; conglomerate.