दाल में काला होना dāl mē̃ kālā hōnā

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How to read the transliteration

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 · g.v.

Earlier definition

Definition

'(There is) something black (as a fly or the like) in the dālʼ.
To have something fishy.
To have something wrong or suspicious.
To have something amiss (here).

Usual translation

  1. there must be something wrong

Origin of the definition

दाल dāla da:l (nf) pulse. —में काला होना to have something fishy. —रोटी चलना to maintain oneself somehow, just to manage a living.

H دال दाल dāl [S. दलं, rt. दल् 'to split,' &c.], s.f. Split pea (of mūṅg, arhar, and other kinds of pulse, much used for food); split pulse; pulse, lentils, vetches; — a black or dark spot (resembling dāl, in anything); focus (of rays of light); — a crust, scale, scab. dāl-roṭī, s.f. Bread and dāl; food, sustenance, livelihood. dāl-meṅ kućh kālā, '(There is) something black (as a fly or the like) in the dālʼ; (there is) something wrong or suspicious (in the affair, &c.), something amiss (here).

होना hōnā (hindi)

To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.

काला kālā (hindi)

Black, dark.
Great, fearful, terrible.
A name of Kr̥iṣhṇa.
The black and most venomous variety of the cobra, Coluber naga.
A sepoy.
(Bābā) Blackened, soiled by vices.

में mē̃ (hindi)

में is used for denoting :

  • Location or presence (of something) in or within something.
  • Duration.
  • Price.
  • Comparison with reference to more than two, or difference.
    (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
Created
Monday 7 April 2025
Updated
Monday 7 April 2025