لڈو

लड्डू laḍḍū(rustic) लडू laḍū[Prk. लड्डओ ु =S. लड्डकः ु ], s.m. A kind of sweetmeat (made of the meal of chick-pea, or mūṅg, etc., with the addition of sugar and ghī, and sometimes rasped cocoa-nut kernel, and pistachio nuts, and formed into the shape of large boluses or balls); a ball, lump, round mass; (fig.) benefit, gain; stock, capital, principal:—laḍḍūbāṅṭnā(-meṅ), To distribute laḍḍūs (among); to celebrate a piece of good fortune:—laḍḍūbāṅdhnā, or laḍḍūbanānā(-kā), To make laḍḍūsor balls (of), to form into round lumps:—laḍḍūkhilānā(-ko), To feast (one) with laḍḍūs; to bribe, to grease the palms of:—laḍḍūmilnāor mil-jānā, v.n. To find something good; to gain, profit:—ṭhag-ke laḍḍūkhā-baiṭhnā, To eat a Thag's laḍḍūand be done for (an allusion taken from ṭhags, or other sharpers, who join a party of travellers, and, having got into their confidence, entertain them with sweetmeats impregnated with Datura or other intoxicating drug, that they may rob them with impunity while under its stupefying influence); to be orbecome intoxicated, stupefied, distracted, or foolish:—man-ke laḍḍūphoṛnā, or khānā, or luṛhānā, To break, or to eat, or to roll, imaginary laḍḍūs; to build castles in the air, to form vain fancies.