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बळ bajr, बजर bajar, bajjar[S. वळ], adj. Adamantine, hard, impenetrable; massive, ponderous, heavy, unwieldy; heavy of movement, slow; severe, difficult, hard; shaped like a (St. Andrew's, or multiplication) cross;—s.m. The thunderbolt and weapon of Indra, thunderbolt, lightning; adamant, diamond; a hard, heavy stone:—bajr-ang (S. vajrāng, i.e. vajra+anga), bajr-angī, adj. & s.m. Having a hardy frame;—a title of Hanumān; a robust, hardy man:—bajr-angī(S.vajra+aṅkita), adj. & s.f. Marked with a cross-shaped symbol;—a cross-shaped tilakor mark made with red lead on a Hindū's forehead:—bajr-āghāt (S.vajra+āghata), s.m. Stroke of a thunderbolt; stroke of lightning; any sudden shock or calamity:—bajarbaṭṭū(S. vajra+sphaṭ+uka), s.m. The umbrellabearing palm, Corypha umbraculifera; the seeds of the same palm (which are used as beads for necklaces by certain sects of Hindūs: 'The tree flowers but once and dies, and the natives firmly believe that the bursting of the spadix is accompanied by a loud explosion'; whence the name):—bajr-bhāṅg, s.m. Tobacco (syn. tambākū):—bajr paṛnā(-par), Lightning to fall (upon), to be struck by a thunderbolt, or by lightning; to be withered, be blasted, be stricken with calamity (used in cursing, e.g. bajr paṛe uspar):—bajr-ćhand, s.m. Name of one of the metres of Hindīpoetry:—bajr-kīṭ, s.m. lit. 'Hard reptile'; the scaly ant-eater, the Pangolin or Manis: a kind of penetrating insect which bores holes in wood and stone.
Origin: Hindi