گرہ

गृ ह gr̤iha, vulg. gr̤ih, and H. मह grah, and िगरह girah, s.m. A house, dwelling, habitation (=ghar):—family; wife (=gharāna):—gr̤iha-bhūmi, s.f. Site of a house:—gr̤iha-bhedī, adj. & s.m. (f. -inī), Prying (or one who pries) into domestic affairs; causing (or a causer of) family quarrels:—gr̤iha-pati, s.m. (f. -patnī), Master of a house, head of a family; a householder:—gr̤iha-ćārī, s.m.=gr̤iha-stha, q.v.:—gr̤iha-ććhidra, s.m. A breach in a house, private or family dissensions or troubles;—burglary;—(f. -ā), one who tells abroad the secrets of his own family:—gr̤ihataṭī, s.f. A terrace in front of a house; a threshold:—gr̤iha-stha, vulg. gr̤ihasth, gr̤ihast, grahast, girhast, girhist, adj. & s.m. (fr. -ā), Living or staying in a house; being a householder;—worthy of trust, trusty;—a householder, head of a family, master of a house;—a Brāhmaṇin the second period of his religious life, or one who after having finished his studies, and after investiture with the sacred thread, performs the duties of the master of a house and the father of a family;—a husbandman, a peasant:—gr̤iha-sthāśram (-stha+āś˚), s.m. The profession, or the condition, of a householder or a married man:—gr̤iha-sthī, vulg. gr̤ihastī, grahastī, girhastī, girhistī, adj. & s.m. (f. -inī), Of or belonging to a householder; relating to house-keeping;—a householder; master of a house, a family man (=gr̤ihasth); a husbandman;—s.f. The duties and functions of a householder, housekeeping; domestic matters; worldly affairs; housewifery;—husbandry, agriculture:—gr̤iha-sambandhī, s.m. (f. -inī), Any member of a household (including servants);—gr̤ih-kāj, or gr̤iha-kārya, s.m. Household affairs, domestic duties:—gr̤ihakapotak, s.m. (f. -ikā), A tame or domestic pigeon:—gr̤iha-godhikā, s.f. The small houselizard:—gr̤iha-nāśan, s.m. (f. -ī), A pigeon (so called because it destroys the walls of a house by building in and about it):—gr̤iha-vāṭikā, s.f. A garden or grove near a house.