बाल-बाल
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Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of बाल (bāl, “hair”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- “hair by hair; every hair”: altogether, throughout, entirely, from head to toe
- by a hair's breadth, narrowly, barely
Derived terms
[edit]- बाल-बाल मोती पिरोना (bāl-bāl motī pironā)
- बाल-बाल बचना (bāl-bāl bacnā)
- बाल-बाल बचाना (bāl-bāl bacānā)
References
[edit]- Platts, John T. (1884) “بال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 124
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बाल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 727
- Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “बाल”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 518