s. m, sheepfold, an enclosure; a kind of fortification, a breastwork; ground on which melons &c., are planted; a district near Peshawar famous for its rice, hence the name of rice grown in that place:—báṛá deṉá, v. a. To distribute money among beggars and Brahmans formed in a circle, at weddings;—a. (M.) Brackish (used of water, also of waste salt soil), a good example of Báṛá water is that found in the Sindh Sagar Thal:—khúh báṛá jamíṇ dá ujáṛá. When the well water is brackish the fertility of the land is destroyed.—Prov; i. q. Váṛá.