بال

बाल bāl, adj. Young, childish, infantine, juvenile, immature, not full grown; puerile, ignorant, uninstructed, unwise;—s.m. Infant, child, boy, youth, minor; colt; five-year-old elephant;—hair, a hair; tail; crack (in china or glass, etc.); the thread on which sugar is crystallized;—a kind ofperfume or fragrant grass, Andropogon schœnanthus (cf. bālāand bālćhar):—bāl utarnā, v.n. To be shaved:—bāl-avasthā, s.f. State of a child, youth, infancy, childhood:—bāl ānā, v.n. To have hair coming on the face;—to have a crack (in, -meṅ), to be cracked (china, etc.):—bāl-bāl, adv. Hair by hair, every hair, altogether, throughout, entirely;—by a hair, by a hair's breadth, narrowly, barely;—bāl-bāl baćnā, v.n. To have a hair's breadth or narrow escape; barely to succeed or to win:—bāl-bāl motīpirona, To adorn oneself from head to foot, decorateoneself elaborately:—bāl bāṅdhnā, v.n. To bind the hair; to braid the hair:—bāl-bāṅdhā, adj. & adv., bāl-bāṅdhā-hu`ā, adj. Minute, precise, exact; skilful, dexterous, expert;—to a hair, to a nicety; immediately, instantly; cheerfully:—bālbāṅdhā ćor, s.m. Expert thief:—bāl-bāṅdhīkauṛīmārnā, v.n. To shoot at without missing, to hit the mark;—to have true aim; to have great care, not to mistake:—bāl-baćće, s.m. Children; wife and children, family;—bāl-baććoṅ-wālī, s.f. Mother of a family;—the goddess of smallpox (so named because she carries off whom she will):—bāl-budh, s.f. Child-like intelligence, sense of a child:—bāl-bidhwā, s.f. Child-widow=bāl-rāṅḍ, q.v.:—bāl-barābar, adj. & s.m. As much asa hair, the least or slightest;—hair's breadth, least bit:—bāl baṛhānā, v.n. To let the hair grow:—bāl bikharnā, v.n. Letting the hair loose (a woman); to have the hair tossed or dishevelled; to be in a state of perplexity:—bāl banānā, v.n. To do the hair; to dress the hair; to shave:—bāl-bodh, s.m. 'Instruction for the young'; a very small book (name of various works adapted to the capacity of the young):—bāl-bhog, s.m. An offering to Kr̤ishṇapresented in the early morning (syn. mohan-bhog):—bāl bīkāna honā, Not a hair to be disordered; not to receive the slightest injury or harm:—bāl paṛnā(-meṅ), To have a crack (in), be cracked (china, etc.):—bāl-toṛ, s.m. Pimple, boil or sore (caused by plucking out or breaking a hair of the body):—bāl jhaṛnā, v.n. Falling off of the hair:—bāl-ćaritr, s.m. Childish exploits or tricks, juvenile sports or frolics; the sports of Kr̤ishṇain his childhood:—bāl ćunnā, v.n. Pulling or picking out hairs:—bāl-ćhatrī, s.f. The hair on the crown of the head:—bāl-ḵẖorā, s.m. A disease that causes the hair of horses to fall off (=bād-ḵẖor):—bāl-dār, adj. & s.m. Hairy, shaggy, hirsute;—cracked; a cracked cup or vessel:—bāl denā, v.n. lit.'To give the hair'; to be shaved preparatory to performing the obsequies of the dead (a Hindūrite, especially incumbent on the son);—to throw the hair of the head forward and backward before the ta`zīyaof the Moharramfestival (a ceremony performed by Mohammadan women):—bāl-rāj, s.m. Lapis lazuli:—bāl-rāṅḍ, s.f. Child-widow, a widow who loses her husband when she is very young:—bāl rakhnā, v.n. To allow the hair to grow:—bāl-rūp, adj. Child-like, childish, puerile, youthful:—bāl suljhānā, v.n. To let down the hair and disentangle it with a comb:—bāl-kānḍ, s.m. 'Section treating of the boy Rāma,' the title of the first book of the Rāmāyaṇa:—bāl-kamānī, s.f. Hairspring:—bāl-kavi, s.m. Minor poet:—bāl-kībheṛbanānā, bāl-kīkammal banānā, lit. 'To make a sheep, or a blanket, of a single hair'; to magnify, exaggerate, make a mountain of a molehill:—bāl-kīkhāl khaiṅćnāTo split hairs, to be hypercritical:—bāl-gopāl, s.m. Children, family (=bāl-baćće); disciples, followers—bālghāt, s.f. Infanticide (=bāl-hatyā);—bāl-ghātak, s.m. Murderer of children:—bāl-locan, s.m. The act of tearing or plucking out the hair:—bāl-līlā, s.f.=bāl-ćaritr, q.v.:—bāl lenā, v.n. To pull or pluck out the hair:—bāl noćnā(-kā), To tear or pull out the hair:—bāl-rāyaj, s.m. Lapis lazuli (bāl-rāj):—bāl-hatyā, s.f. Infanticide;—bāl-hatyārā, s.m. (f. -ī), Murderer of children:—bāl-haṭ, s.f. Childish obstinacy, insistance.