बाल-बाल

Hindi

Etymology

Reduplication of बाल (bāl, “hair”).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bɑːl.bɑːl/, [bäːl.bäːl]

Adverb

बाल-बाल • (bāl-bāl)

1. “hair by hair; every hair”: altogether, throughout, entirely, from head to toe
2. by a hair's breadth, narrowly, barely

Derived terms

• बाल-बाल मोती पिरोना (bāl-bāl motī pironā)
• बाल-बाल बचना (bāl-bāl bacnā)
• बाल-बाल बचाना (bāl-bāl bacānā)

References

• Platts, John T. (1884) “بال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 124
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बाल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 727
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “बाल”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 518