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muhra, or mǒhra (rel. n. fr. mǒhr= S. मुिा, q.v.), s.m. A shell, a cowrie; a pebble; a small ball or pill (syn. guṭkā);—a bead (of glass, or coral);—a stone found in the head of a serpent; bezoar stone;—a rubber, a shell, or pebble, etc. used for giving a smoothness and a glossiness to paper, etc.; a polishing-instrument (of iron, or bone); glossiness (of paper, etc.), gloss, polish, lustre;—a piece, or man (at chess, backgammon, etc.); a counter (for playing any game);—any natural protuberance of the bone (as in the neck-joint, etc.), ankle-joint; backbone; vertebra:—mǒhra-dār, vulg. mǒhredār, adj. Polished, glazed, glossy, smooth:—mǒhra karnā, v.t. To rub with a shell, or pebble, etc.; to smooth, to polish, to give a gloss to:—mǒhra-ě-nard, s.m. Chess-man, a piece at draughts, or backgammon, etc.
Origin: Persian