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लहर lahar, lahr[S. लहिरः], s.f. A wave, billow; surge; undulation; a waving line (in patterns of cloth, etc.); a flowing or undulating fold (in draperies, etc.);—whim, fancy, vision, wild fancy, freak;—emotion, excitement, fit of passion; ecstasy, transport, rapture, frenzy; furor; a convulsive or spasmodic affection of the body (as from intoxicating or poisonous substances, from venomous bites or stings, from anger, lust, etc., or as in death); a sudden seizure, a paroxysm, fit; throe, heave; smart, ache, burn;—puff of a zephyr or soft wind;—a term for the lines which lie under the throat of certain snakes (according to the number of these lines, it is supposed, is the number of convulsive throes with which a bitten person is affected):—lahar uṭhnā, A wave to rise; emotion, etc. to rise:—lahar ānā, A wave to come;—to prosper, to be happy:—lahar-bahar (bahar, fr. bahnā, or a jingling wood), s.f. Prosperity; prime and vigour, fulness and flush, glow and glory, zenith and heyday:—lahar-ćāl, s.f. Undulatory motion:—lahr ćaṛhnā(-ko), A paroxysm to come on, to have a sudden seizure, or a fit, etc.:—lahr-dār, adj. Wavy, undulating, (in Bot.) repand;—fanciful, whimsical, fitful, crotchety;—flashing, fine, pretty:—lahr-kāpatlā ḥiṣṣaor ṭukṛā, (in Acous.) Rarefaction of a portion of a wave:—lahr-kāgāṛhā ḥissaor ṭukṛā, (in (Acous.) Condensation of a portion of a wave:—lahr-mauj, adj. & s.m.=lahrī, q.v.
Origin: Hindi