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भारतवाणी
bharatavani  
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Knowledge through Indian Languages
Bharatavani

A Dictionary : Part-1 (Hindustani and English)

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د
Dāl, called dāl,
NA
I muhmala, is the eighth letter in the Arabic, the tenth in the Persian, and the eleventh in the Hindūstānī alphabets : its sound is much softer and more dental than that of our d : in reckoning by abjad it stands for four : in Persian it is sometimes permuted into t, as bat-tar for bad-tar, worse ; in the classic period of the Persian language dāl seems to have been pronounced ẕāl, whenever a vowel preceded, as gumbaẕ, a dome, for gumbad ; ustāẕ, a preceptor, for ustād ; and in good Persian MSS. written four hundred years ago or upwards the dāl, thus permuted, is generally marked with a dot, ẕāl. the letter dāl (denoting dāda, "granted") used formerly to be affixed to zamīndārī and other grants by the head native revenue officer under the British government in Bengal. a. p.
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د
Da,
NA
in Sanskrit added as a termination to a substantive, denotes giving, bestowing ; as, from sukh or sukha, pleasure, comes sukh-da or sukha da, giving or bestowing pleasure (similar to the Persian dih or bakhsh, q. v. as ārām-dih from ārām). S.

داب
Dāb,
m.
custom, manner, institution ; situation, condition ; vehement, or forcible propulsion dābi ṣuḥbat, m. good manners, civilization. A.

داب
Dāb,
NA
magnificence, pomp, ostentation. P.

داب
Dāb,
NA
fear, dread ; awe reverence. D.

داباگن دابانل
दाबाग्नि दाबानल
Dābāgni, Dābānal,
m.
conflagration of a forest (v. dāvāgni). S.

دابہ
Dābbat,
NA
a reptile, a beast of burden. Dābbatu-l-arẓ, the second beast mentioned in the Apocalypse. A.

دابت
Dābat,
NA
an imprecation, a curse. D.

دابنا
दाबना
Dābnā,
a.
to press down, to suppress, to snub, to squeeze. Dāb-rakhnā, a. to conceal, to steal and conceal ; to press, particularly with the thighs, to retain by pressure, to grip (as money). Dāb-lenā, a. to outgrow. H.

دابی
दाबी
Dābī,
f.
a measure of about ten handfuls (of autumn crop, &c.). H.


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