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भारतवाणी
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Bharatavani

A Dictionary : Part-1 (Hindustani and English)

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حروءا
जुरूवा
Jurū,Ā Or Juruvā,
f.
a woman, a female. H.

ح
ḥe,
NA
commonly called ḥā,I muhmala and ḥā,I ḥūṭṭī, the sixth letter of the Arabic alphabet, the eighth in Persian, and the ninth in Hindūstānī. It does not occur in words purely Persian, nor is there in Sanskrit any letter corresponding to it. Its sound is much skin to our h in haul, only the aspiration is stronger, and formed deep in the throat. in reckoning by abjad it stands for eight. Being the initial letter of ḥuẓūr-navīs, or Secretary of State, it is affixed to royal grants as a mark of attestation by that officer. a.

حاتم
ḥātim,
NA
a judge ; a black crow (probably from decisions being formed by augury from that bird) ; the name of an Arab chief of the tribe of Tā,ī, famed for his boundless liberality, whence (met.) liberal, generous, bountiful ; for example a man of great liberality is styled "the ḥātim of the age". a.
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حاج
ḥājj,
NA
a pilgrim to Mecca. A.

حاجات / حاجت
ḥājāt (pl.),
NA
wants, necessities. A.

حاجب
ḥājib,
m.
a porter, a door-keeper ; a chamberlian, a privy-counsellor ; a curtain, a screen ; the eyebrow. A.

حاجت
ḥājat,
f.
necessity ; poverty ; hope, wish, need, want. ḥājat-barār or -rawā, producing or supplying what is needed. ḥājat raf' karnā, a. to relieve one's necessities ; to go to the necessary. ḥājatmand, necessitous, indigent ; hoping, depending. ḥājat-mandī, f. indigence, destitution. a.

حاجز
ḥājiz,
NA
that which hinders or intervenes. A.

حاجی
ḥājī,
m.
a Musalmān who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca. ḥājī ul ḥaramain, a pilgrim to both the sacred places, i. e. Mecca and Medīna. A.

حاجی احمق حاجی بیوقوف
ḥājī-aḥmaḳ, ḥājī Bevuḳūf,
NA
two mock pilgrims who perform a conspicuous part in the Muḥarram festival. Their tricks, antics, and convrsation are very similar to those of "Symmie and his brither,," the two mock friars who generally appeared in the burlesque pageants. ridiculing the Pope and priesthood of Rome, perormed in Scotland about the time of the Reformation - (Binning). N. B. The church of Rome herselfhad for ages countenanced and enouraged these saturnalia before the Reformation was thought of. In the palmy days of Popery such mummeries were regarded as utterly harmless ; but in the hands of the reformers they of course became highly offensive. a.
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