गर्दिश

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian گردش (gardiš).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɡəɾ.d̪ɪʃ/, [ɡɐɾ.d̪ɪʃ]

Noun

गर्दिश • (gardiś) f (Urdu spelling گردش)

1. misfortune, adversity, crisis

   Synonym: संकट (saṅkaṭ)

   उसके सितारे एकाएक गर्दिश में चल गए।

   uske sitāre ekāek gardiś mẽ cal gae.

   He fell into sudden misfortune.

   (literally, “His stars suddenly went into revolution.”)

2. rotation, revolution

   Synonyms: चक्कर (cakkar), दायरा (dāyrā), दौर (daur), फेरा (pherā)

3. (politics) revolution

   Synonyms: क्रांति (krānti), इंक़लाब (iṅqlāb)

Declension

Declension of गर्दिश (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	गर्दिश gardiś	गर्दिशें gardiśẽ
oblique	गर्दिश gardiś	गर्दिशों gardiśõ
vocative	गर्दिश gardiś	गर्दिशो gardiśo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “गर्दिश”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “गर्दिश”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House