Hindi Idiom, Phrase, and Saying Dictionary

• अंडे का शहज़ादा

  Literal: literally, 'prince of eggs'; a figurative image without a real physical referent.

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• अंधे के हाथ बटेर लगना

  Literal: the image of a blind person unexpectedly catching or being handed a quail.

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• अक़्ल का दुश्मन

  Literal: literally, an 'enemy of intellect' or an adversary of reason and wisdom.

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• अक्ल बड़ी या भैंस

  Literal: a rhetorical question asking whether intelligence (mind) or a buffalo is larger.

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• अधजल गगरी छलकत जाय

  Literal: a half-filled water pot (gugari) tends to spill while being carried.

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• अपना उल्लू सीधा करना

  Literal: to straighten or adjust one's owl (a literal action of arranging or setting an owl upright).

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• अपनी गली में कुत्ता भी शेर होता है

  Literal: in one's own lane or neighborhood even a dog appears like a lion.

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• अब पछताए क्या होत जब चिड़िया चुग गई खेत

  Literal: what is the use of regretting now that the bird has already eaten the field.

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• आँख मारना

  Literal: to close one eye briefly in a deliberate gesture; to wink.

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• आठों पहर

  Literal: the eight traditional watches of the day (the full division of the day into eight parts).

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• आदान-प्रदान

  The literal act of giving and receiving things, services, or information between two or more parties.

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• आम के आम गुठलियों के दाम

  A proverbial expression meaning to obtain two benefits from a single action or to gain double advantage from one source.

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• आरती उतारना

  Literal: to perform the ritual of aarti, involving the waving of a lamp or light before a deity while singing...

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• आवश्यकता आविष्कार की जननी है

  Literal translation of the proverb 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'

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• आस्तीन का सांप

  Literal: a snake concealed within a sleeve or something that hides danger close to the body.

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• ईद का चाँद

  The thin crescent moon whose sighting marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the festival of Eid.

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• ईश्वर की माया कहीं धूप कहीं छाया

  A proverbial statement that life under divine will alternates between sunshine and shade, indicating that fortune and adversity are fickle...

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• ईश्वर जाने

  An expression meaning 'only God knows,' used to indicate uncertainty or lack of knowledge about a matter.

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• उड़ती चिड़िया के पर पहचानना

  To identify or judge something on the basis of very scant, fleeting, or unreliable evidence, analogous to trying to recognize...

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• उल्टा चोर कोतवाल को डांटे

  A proverb meaning that the wrongdoer falsely blames or scolds the authority or the innocent, equivalent to 'the pot calling...

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• उल्लू का पट्ठा

  The offspring or young of an owl; literally, a child of an owl.

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• उल्लू बनाना

  To make or create an owl; taken literally, to cause an owl to exist or appear.

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• ऊँट के मुँह में जीरा

  A cumin seed in a camel's mouth; literally, the image of a tiny object inside a large mouth.

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• एक दूजे के वास्ते

  For one another; intended for or in relation to each other.

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• एक पंथ दो काज

  One path, two tasks; literally, a single way that addresses two matters.

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• कंगाली में आटा गीला

  Literal: The flour becomes wet when one is impoverished; a literal description of a poor household's misfortune.

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• कमर तोड़ना

  Literal: To break someone's spine or back; to inflict a severe physical injury to the back.

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• काटना

  Literal: To cut, slice, or sever with an edge or blade; to divide something into parts by cutting.

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• काम का न काज का दुश्मन अनाज का

  Literal: Neither fit for work nor for household tasks, yet an enemy of the grain; a literal composition of descriptors...

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• किंतु-परंतु

  Literal: A pairing of conjunctions meaning 'but' or 'however'; used to introduce contrast or qualification.

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• कुंभकर्ण की नींद

  The literal deep sleep attributed to Kumbhakarna, a mythological giant from the Ramayana who slept for long periods.

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• कुएँ का मेंढक

  A frog that lives in a well and therefore has a confined view of the outside world.

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• के बग़ल में

  Beside or next to; at the side of something or someone.

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• कौड़ी को तंग

  To squeeze or press a small coin or cowrie (literally referencing a very small unit of value).

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• क्या चल रहा है

  What is happening right now; an inquiry about current events or actions.

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• पता चलना

  Literal: to become known or to be discovered; information or a fact comes to light.

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• क्या मैं फ़ारसी बोल रहा हूँ

  A literal question asking whether the speaker is speaking the Persian language.

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• खट्टे अंगूर

  Grapes that taste sour; fruit that is tart rather than sweet.

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• खरी खोटी सुनाना

  To reprimand or rebuke someone severely; to tell someone off bluntly and harshly.

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• ख़बर लेना

  To receive or obtain news or information about an event or person.

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• ख़ून का बदला ख़ून

  Literal retaliatory violence in which blood is avenged by blood; physical vengeance resulting in bloodshed.

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• ख़ून सूखना

  Literal: to have one's blood dry; to lose or have blood drained until it becomes dry or coagulated.

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• खाना

  Literal (verb): to eat; to consume food.

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• खाली दिमाग शैतान का घर

  Literal: an empty mind is the devil's house; a mind that is empty is likened to a dwelling place for...

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• खुजली

  Literal: an unpleasant sensation on the skin that causes a desire to scratch; itching.

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• खोदा पहाड़ निकली चुहिया

  Literal: having dug a mountain, a mouse emerged.

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• गले लगाना

  To put someone in one's arms; to hug or embrace physically as an expression of affection or greeting.

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• गागर में सागर भरना

  Literally, to attempt to fill a small vessel (gagar) with an ocean (sagar), an impossible or absurd physical action.

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• गूँगे का गुड़ खाना

  Literally, to eat the jaggery of a mute person, describing a physical action with no inherent figurative content.

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• गेहूँ के साथ घुन भी पिसता है

  Literally, the weevil (ghun) is ground along with the wheat, describing a milling process where both grain and pests are...

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