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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Muṃha (मुंह):—(nm) the mouth; face; the forepart (of anything); an opening, orifice, hole, aperture; inlet; outlet; source; courage, strength; fitness; —[aṃdhere/ujāle] very early in the morning, before day-break; ~[caḍhā] see ~[lagā; ~cora] bashful, shy, sheepish, shamefaced; ~[corī] bashfulness, sheepishness, shamefacedness; ~[chipāū] bashful, skulking/skulker; ~[chuāī] extension of a mere formal invitation, to ask or enquire just casually; ~[chuṭa] see ~[phaṭa; ~jabānī] verbal, oral; ~[jora] insolent, impertinent, impudent; high-spirited, hard-mouthed (as a [ghoḍā]); ~[jorī] insolence, impudence; high-spiritedness, hard-mouthedness; ~[jhauṃsā] (an abuse used by womenfolk) one with a charred face; charred-faced; ~[toḍa] apt, befitting; crushing; incontrovertible; retaliatory (as [muṃhatoḍa javāba); -javāba denā] to give a crushing/befitting reply; -[dara-muṃha] face-to-face; ~[dikhāī] present (in cash or kind) offered to a newly-wed bride (on seeing her for the first time by womenfolk of the bridegroom’s household); ~[dekhī] superficial; involving sham regard; just for appeasement; ~[phaṭa] loose-tongued, outspoken, intemperate in speech; ~[baṃda] closed-mouthed; reticent; unblossomed; ~[bolā] adopted; ~[māṃgā] as explicitly demanded or asked for; fully answering one’s wish; ~[māṃgī murāda] heart-felt wish, any object or thing obtained in fulfilment of expressed wish; ~[lagā] insolent, impudent, given too much/allowed too much liberty;—[āṃsuoṃ se dhonā] to weep bitterly; —[ānā] to suffer from mouth-sore, to have one’s mouth filled with pilules; mouth to be salivated; —[itanāsā nikala ānā] to be reduced to gaunt; to grow very much emaciated and pallid; to be too much ashamed; to lose one’s facial lustre; —[ujalā honā] to come out unscathed from an accusation; to be exonerated; to be spared humiliation and disgrace; to have one’s face saved; to come out with flying colours; —[uṭhe] on rising (from bed);—[utaranā] the face to grow lustreless; to be dismal-looking; to have the face exhaustion/tiredness; the face to become shrunken/reduced/drawn; —[karanā] (a boil etc.) to develop an opening; —[karanā, kisī kī ora] to to turn the face towards; —[kā kaḍā/sakhta] harsh-spoken, insolent; hard mouthed —[kā kaḍuvā] bitter-spoken; —[kā kaura/nivālā] to be damn easy, as easy as the swallowing of a morsel;—[kā kaura/tukaḍā/nivālā chīnanā] to take the bread out of one’s mouth, to deprive someone of livelihood/subsistence; to deprive somebody of his acquirement; —[kā kaura samajhanā/honā] to take as easy; —[kā mīṭhā] superficially sweet, soft-spoken; sweet without but malicious within; —[kālā karanā] lit. to blacken one’s face to be disgraced, to disgrace; to go about wenching; to get out of sight; to damn (it); —[kālā ho] be damned; be disgraced; —[kālā honā] to be disgraced, one’s face to be blackened; to have gone out of sight; to have been damned; ~[kī khānā] to lick/kiss the dust, to have one’s gruel, to eat an humble pie; to suffer a humiliating defeat; to receive a blow on the face, to be brow-beaten; —[kī bāta chīnanā/-se bāta chīnanā] to snatch words out of somebody’s mouth; —[kī lālī rakhanā] to maintain one’s grace/dignity; —[kī loī utaranā] to lose the sense of shame; to be lost to shame, to become brazen; —[ke bala giranā] to fall facelong; to stoop to a very low level; to go all out in pursuit of; —[ke lāyaka honā] to conform to somebody’s status; to befit/to become under a particular set of circumstances; —[kharāba karanā] to spoil one’s taste; to utter indecent/vituperative words; —[khilanā] to be delighted, to be full of joy; —[khulanā] to speak out; to speak out unrestrictedly; —[khulavānā] to cause somebody to speak out; to incite to be impertinently frank; —[khuśka honā] see—[sūkhanā; -kholakara raha jānā] to be wonder-struck/astounded; to gape in amazement; —[kholanā] to speak out; to ask for something; to be vituperatively outspoken; —[cāṭanā] to caress; to toady, to make much of; —[ciḍhānā] to make faces at, to mock, to ridicule; —[curānā] to hide one’s face, to avoid, not to face; —[cuma lenā] to plant a kiss on the face of; to concede superiority, to compliment for working wonders; —[chipānā/chupānā] to evade (somebody), to skulk, to be bashful, to hide ones' face; —[chūnā] to extend a mere formal invitation (without meaning it); to talk insincerely; —[jarā-sā nikala ānā] see —[itanā sā nikala ānā; -ṭeḍhā karanā] to make wry faces; to be displeased; to show aversion/displeasure; —[ḍālanā] to interfere, to poke one’s nose into, to muzzle into; —[takanā/tākanā] to gaze/stare at the face (of); to be astonished; to look blank/foolish, to expect something of (as [unakā muṃha mata tāko); ~toḍa javāba denā] to jump down a person’s throat; —[dikhānā] to make an appearance; —[dikhāne lāyaka na rahanā] to lose face, to be thoroughly disgraced; —[dekhakara bāta kahanā] to flatter, to appease through agreeable words, to be superficially sweet, to say pleasant things (to); —[dekhate raha jānā] to be lost in astonishment; to look aghast, to be taken aback; —[dekhī bāta karanā] see —[dekhakara bāta kahanā; -dekhe kā] superficial, not cordial; —[dho rakho] have no hopes !, have no illusions !; —[na lagānā] not to touch one with a barge pole; —[pakaḍanā] to hold somebody’s tongue, not to allow to speak out; —[para] on one’s face, in the presence of; openly;—[para kālikha potanā/lagānā] to bring disgrace/slander to; —[para jhāḍū māranā] to damn !; —[para jhūṭa nahīṃ bolā jātā] face to face the teeth come out; —[para tālā laga jānā] to be tongue-tied; to be rendered mute; not to utter a word; —[para thūkanā ] to spit at/upon, to express ignominious indignation; —[para nāka na honā] to be shameless, to be brazen-faced; —[para phākhtā uḍanā]to change colour, to look blank/confounded/astounded; —[para māranā] to fling in one’s teeth; —[para muhara lagānā] to be tongue-tied; the lips to be sealed, not to be able to speak out; —[para lānā] to utter, to speak out, to bring to the lips; —[para havāiyāṃ uḍanā] see—[para phākhtā uḍanā; -pasāranā] to gape in wonder, to look aghast; to ask for ever more; —[pānā] to get tacit instigation; to find one favourably disposed; to get into the good graces (of); to presume on the favour (of);—[pīlā paḍanā] to turn pale or pallid (from fear etc.), to lose lustre; —[peṭa calanā] to have an attack of cholera, to have both motions and vomits; —[phaka ho jānā] to turn pale; see—[para phākhtā uḍanā; ~phaṭa honā]to wear one’s heartupon one’s sleeve; to lack reserve, to be outspoken; —[phiranā] to be satiated/cloyed/ disgusted / displeased (with); —[phulānā/sujānā] to sulk, to be sulkily reticent to be displeased, to make a wry face, to distend the cheeks; —[pheranā] to abstain (from); to avoid, to turn the face away from; —[phailānā] see —[bānā; -baṃda karanā] to hold one’s tongue; to bribe, to give hush-money (to); to cut the ground from under one’s feet; —[banānā] to make a wry face; to look displeased/sour; to frown or scowl; to mock; —[bāṃdhakara baiṭhanā] to sit quiet, not to utter a word; —[bānā] to expire; to yawn; to desire too much; —[bigāḍanā] to leave a bad taste in the mouth; see—[banānā; -bicakānā] to make a wry face; —[bhara ānā] the mouth to water/to salivate; —[bhara kosanā] to heap curses on; —[bharanā] to give hush money, to bribe; —[mīṭhā karanā] to give one a treat; to offer sweets to celebrate a happy occasion or a good news; —[meṃ kālikha putanā/laganā] to be disgraced, to face ignominy;—[meṃ/ko khūna/lahū laganā] to get a taste for impropriety, to get accustomed to depravity; —[meṃ guḍa-ghī/-meṃ ghī-śakkara] may what you say turn out to be true!; —[meṃ jabāna na rakhanā] to be tongue-tied, not to speak at all; to be very meek; —[meṃ jabāna rakhanā/honā] to be able to speak out; to be reactive; —[meṃ dahī jamanā] to speak just nothing, not to be able to speak; —[meṃ dāṃta na peṭa meṃ āṃta] to be very old; —[meṃ pānī bhara ānā] to lick one’s chaps/chops; the mouth to water/salivate; to have an intense desire to enjoy/possess something; —[meṃ rāma bagala meṃ churī] beads about the neck and devil in the heart, many kiss the hand that they wish cut off; —[meṃ lagāma na honā] to be absolutely intemperate in speech; to have no restraint whatever over one’s utterance, to be in the habit of saying any and everything; —[moḍanā] to turn one’s back upon; to turn away the face from, to disregard; to be averse to; to abstain from; —[rakhanā] to keep a good countenance; —[laganā] to suit the palate of; to be agreeable to the taste of; to become used to; to bandy words (with); —[lagānā] to give undue lift to (an inferior or junior person); to allow someone to take undue liberties; —[laṭakānā, -laṭakā honā] to pull/wear/draw a long face, to be down in the mouth; to be expressly displeased; to sulk; —[lāla karanā] to make one’s face red by slapping; —[lāla honā] to flush with anger, to be red with anger; to be blushed red; —[lekara raha jānā, apanā-sā] to face severe discomfiture; to be thoroughly chagrined; —[saṃbhāla kara bolanā] to have one’s tongue in one’s cheek, to talk sensibly; —[sīnā] to seal the lips (of), not to allow to speak; to silence (a person); to give hush-money; —[sūkhanā] the face to become thin/emaciated / withered / dried up; to be thirsty; —[se nikala jānā] to utter per chance; to make an unguarded utterance; to say something that should not have been said; —[se phūla jhaḍanā] soft words to flow out, to be very gentle in speech; (ironical) to condemn in round terms, to reproach or abuse; —[se bāta na nikalanā] to be tongue-tied; not to be able to speak out; —[se bāta chīna lenā] see—[kī bāta chīna lenā; -hī muṃha meṃ] in an inarticulate fashion, within oneself, to oneself.

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Starts with: Mumhamumha, Mumhasa.

Ends with: Mumhamumha.

Full-text (+43): Kauna, Kaun, Yah, Yaha, Kya, Kaura, Kaur, Aumdha, Phitta, Kuppa, Nabadana, Ujla, Nabdan, Bicakana, Fulana, Myaum, Itana, Buda, Garebana, Maut.

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