كوڑي

कौड़ी kauṛī[Prk. कविड्डआ; S. कपिदर्का],s.f. A small shell (used as a coin), a 'cowrie,' Cyprœa moneta;—money, wealth; earnings; price; fare, hire;—a gland;—the breast-bone, the point of the sternum or ensiform cartilage (so called from its fancied resemblance to a cowrie);—a white speck at the root of a finger-nail:—kauṛī-bhar, A little, very little:—kauṛī-kauṛī, orkauṛī-kauṛī-bhar, Every cowrie, full amount up to the last cowrie:—kauṛī-kauṛīadākarnā(or ćukānā, or denā), To pay every cowrie, to pay in full:—kauṛī-kauṛī-bhar pānā, To receive every cowrie, to be paid in full:—kauṛī-kauṛījoṛnā, To save up every cowrie:—kauṛī-kauṛī-ko tang honā(or ḥairān honā), To be pinched (or put to one's wit's end) for every cowrie; to be in great distress; to be reduced to beggary; to become a pauper:—kauṛī-kauṛīlenā(-se), To exact every cowrie (from); to receive the full amount up to the last cowrie:—kauṛī-ko na pūćhnā, To make not the least inquiry after; not to value at a cowrie; to hold in no esteem:—kauṛī-ke tīn-tīn honā, To be (selling) at the rate of three for a cowrie; to be held very cheap:—kauṛī-ke kām-kānahīṅ, Not worth a cowrie, worthless, good-fornothing:—kauṛiyoṅ-ke mol, Purchased for a few cowries, very cheap: phūṭīkauṛī, or kānīkauṛī, or jhinjīkauṛī, s.f. A broken, or perforated, or rubbed and worn, cowrie; a bad cowrie; a bit of money of the lowest value:—do kauṛī-kā ādmī, A worthless person:—do kauṛī-kī'izzat karnā(-kī), 'To reduce (one's) honour to the value of two cowries'; to dishonour, disgrace;—to make (oneself) cheap.