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बारह bārah[S. Ʈादशन् ], adj. Twelve;—bārahoṅ, coll. n. The whole twelve, the twelve:—bārah-bāṭ, adj. lit.'Twelve roads'; scattered, dispersed, cast to the winds, ruined, destroyed; embarrassed, bewildered, perplexed, distracted, confounded; at sixes and sevens, in confusion; at variance, in a state of discord;—bārah-bāṭkarnā, v.t. To scatter, disperse, throw into confusion, confound; to ruin, destroy;—bārah bāṭhonāor ho-jānā, v.n. To be scattered, etc., to become houseless, ruined, etc., to be a vagabond; to be abandoned:—bārah-bānī, adj. & s.m. Generally praised or approved, pure, perfect, genuine, good; sound, hale, hearty, well, convalescent;—the most refined, the purest (gold, water, etc.):—bārah patthar, s.m. The twelve pillars which mark the boundary of a cantonment or encampment; the cantonment or encampment so bounded:—bārah-pulī, adj. & s.m. Having twelve arches;—a bridge with twelve arches:—bārah-darī, bārah-dwārī, s.f. lit.'Having twelve doors'; a summerhouse (generally in a garden):—bārah-singhā, s.m. lit.'Having twelve tines'; a stag, antelope (?):—bārah-khaṛī, s.f.=bārā-khaṛī, q.v.s.v. bārā:—bārah-māsā, adj. & s.m. Pertaining to the twelve months of the year;—Hindīverse of twelve stanzas, corresponding to the twelve months of the year, and descriptive of the pain of separation from a husband, as also of the characteristic changes of the season, the scenery, and the pastimes which distinguish each month:—bārah mahine, adv. The whole twelve months, all the year round, at all times, always, perpetually:—bārah-wafāt, s.f. The twelve days of Moham mad's fatal illness.
Origin: Hindi