پتھر

पत्थर patthar, पथर pathar [S. ूःतरः; Prk. पत्प्यरो], s.m. Stone, rock; precious stone, gem; hailstone; anything hard, troublesome, trying, intolerable, etc.;—adj. Hard; hardhearted; heavy; dull; difficult; disagreeable, intolerable, etc.:—patthar-bāz, s.m. One who plays at stone-throwing; one who is fond of, or is addicted to, throwiug stones;—patthar-bāzī, s.f. Stone-throwing; fondness for stonethrowing:—patthar barasnā, v.n. To hail:—patthar pānīho-jānā, v.n. The melting of a stony heart; a difficult task to be facilitated:—patthar paṛnā(-par), Stones to fall (upon); to hail; to be crushed under a shower of stones or hailstones; to be overwhelmed with trouble, etc.; to be injured, ruined or destroyed:—patthar pasījnā, v.n. A stony heart to be softened or melted:—patthar-phoṛ, s.m. A breaker of stones;—the woodpecker, Picus:—patthar pheṅknā(-par), To throw stones (at), to pelt with stones:—patthar-tale hāth ānāor dabnā= patthar tale dāman dabnā, v.n. To be entangled in difficulties:—patthar-ćaṭ, s.m. Stone-cutter, lapidary; (cf. next):—patthar-ćaṭā, s.m. One who is attached to the very stones of his house and who clings to it even in distress; a skinflint; a kind of serpent; a sort of fish; a sort of potherb:—patthar ćaṭānā, v.t. To put (a knife, etc.), to the grindstone or hone; to whet or sharpen (a knife, etc.):—patthar-ćūr, s.m. The plant Plectranthus aromaticus:—patthar ćhātī-par rakhnā(or ćhātīpar patthar rakhnā), v.n. To be patient by compulsion, or from being without remedy, to suffer patiently:—patthar ḍhonā, v.n. lit. 'To carry stones'; to labour hard:—patthar sāpheṅk-mārnā, v.t. To give a rude or sharp answer; to reply rashly without understanding the meaning of one's question; to give a blunt refusal:—patthar-se sir phoṛnāor mārnā, v.t. lit. 'To break one's own head with a stone'; to teach or instruct a fool:—patthar-kāćhāpā, s.m. Lithography; a lithograph:—patthar-kādil, s.m. Stony or hard heart; hardheartedness:—patthar-kāfarsh, s.m. A pavement:—patthar-kalā, s.m. A firelock:—patthar-kī ćhātī, s.f.=patthar-kādil, q.v.:—patthar-kīlakīr, adj. lit. 'A line engraved on stone'; ineffaceable, ineradicable, unalterable:—patthar-vāh, s.m. Stoning (as a punishment):—patthar honā, v.n. To become stone, to be petrified (=pathrānā); to become hard as stone, to become rigid; to be heavy or burdensome; to be unmerciful; to receive no impression, to be impervious (to); to be fixed or immovable, to be still as a statue, be stable, stand still; to freeze, to congeal; to be stone-blind; to become useless or unserviceable.