बधाई badhāī

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This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919On this site
cch
śśh
ṣṣh
r̥r̥i

A few reading pointers:

  • ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
  • ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
  • A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

Hindi · n. · f.

Earlier definition

Definition

Congratulations, felicitations, greetings.

Usual translation

  1. greetings

Origin of the definition

बधाई badhāī badha:i: (nf) congratulations, felicitations; —देना to congratulate; to felicitate; —बजाना festive music to be played (on the birth of a male child).

बधाई • (badhāī) f (Urdu spelling بدھائی‎) Congratulations, greetings. Happy (used in greetings, e.g. happy anniversary, happy birthday). Felicitations, compliments. Interjection. Congratulations.

H بدهاوا बधावा badhāwā [S. वर्धापकः, rt. वर्ध], s.m. Congratulations on the birth of a child; presents distributed at the ceremony of cutting the umbilical cord, or at the birth of a child; presents carried to the house of a woman on the sixth or the fortieth day after childbirth; song of congratulation, congratulations; merry-making, revelry; — badhāwā denā, To congratulate, &c.

Usage in the murlis

Murlis of the day (and original sakar)

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Created
Sunday 16 May 2021
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Sunday 22 October 2023