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मोड़ moṛ(fr. moṛnā, q.v.), s.m. Turn, bend, winding (as of a road, or a river, etc.; syn. bāṅk, pher); twist; coil; convolution; writhe; twist, sprain (syn. bal, aiṅṭhan);—a turning away, or aside; turning back, or over, or down (as the leaf of a book, etc.), doubling down; a crease; a pucker; a dog's-ear;—(dialec.) driving back (of an army), repulse, defeat, rout;—a taking back, changing; getting or receiving back; return; recovery (of lost property, or stolen goods, etc.);—return, rebound, requital, retribution;—(dialec.) germination; a sprout, shoot (of corn, etc.; i.q. moṛkā); the excrescences of the hemorrhoidal veins in the disease piles; external piles (also moṛ-kā āzār; syn. moṛkā):—moṛ-toṛ, s.m. Twists and turns; windings (of a road, etc.);—a labyrinth, maze;—chopping and changing:—moṛkhānā, v.n. To be turned, or twisted, or bent, etc.; to be turned back; (dialec.) to suffer defeat or rout; to be broken, or driven back in rout.
Origin: Hindi