मौज mauj

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

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.

mr · n. · f.

Earlier definition

Definition

Play, sport, fun, diversion; acts or sights exciting merriment.
Pleasure, delight: also mirth or merriment.
A sudden fancy or freak; a mere humor or whim.
A wave, a billow.

Usual translation

  1. pleasure

Origin of the definition

मौज mauja f ( A) Play, sport, fun, diversion; acts or sights exciting merriment. 2 Pleasure, delight: also mirth or merriment. 3 A sudden fancy or freak; a mere humor or whim. मौज mauja f मौजा m ( A) A wave, a billow.

मौज mauj [A. mauj], f. 1. a wave. 2. surge (of emotion); ecstasy; delight. 3. whim. — आना (को), an idea or whim to come into the mind; to be moved, or thrilled. करना, to surge (the sea); to be capricious; to enjoy oneself without restraint. मारना, id., 2, 3. में आना, to become excited, or ecstatic. मन की, f. a whim, an impulse.

A موج mauj (v.n. fr. ماج (for موج), 'to be agitated (as the sea), to roll in billows'), s.f. A wave, surge, billow (syn. lahar); — whim, caprice; — emotion, ecstasy; — heaps, abundance, plenty: — mauj ānā or ā-jānā, v.n. An idea or whim to come (into the mind); — to be transported, or moved, or thrilled. mauj karnā, or mauj mārnā, v.n. To biliow, wave, beat high (the sea); — to fluctuate, to waver; to be capricious; to enjoy oneself without restraint.

Usage in the murlis

Murlis of the day (and original sakar)

341 occurrences

In 137 on 2386 murlis

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Avyakts

556 occurrences

In 138 on 1112 murlis

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Mamma

9 occurrences

In 7 on 122 murlis

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Created
Sunday 14 February 2021
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