انٹا

अण्टा or अंटा anṭā(cf. āṅṭhī, anṭī, and perhaps anḍā), s.m. Ball, marble pill (as of opium); a large shell or kauṛī:—anṭā-bandhū, adj. Pledging the shell with which he plays (a gambler);—s.m. The shell played with and pledged (by a gambler when he has lost all his money):—anṭā-ćit (ćit = S. िक्षƯ), adj. lit. 'Lying like a ball,' or 'the ball or shell thrown'; prostrate, fallen; senseless, insensible; dead drunk;—reduced to the last extremity; unlucky:—anṭā-ćit honā, v.n. To be prostrate; to fall down; to be dead drunk;—to be reduced to the last extremity, to be very unlucky:—anṭā-ghar, s.m. Billiard room.