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ba


Contents

How does it look?

Bar on top, full length verticle line to the rigth.  Half way down the verticle line is a loop to the left.  This has a bar going through the loop from the upper left to the lower right.

How does it sound?

Letters and sounds commonly confused with

How to write it?

How to type it?

If you are using a US English keyboard with the standard Devanagari/Hindi layout, then you would press "y"

(see "How to type in Hindi" for more information about setting up your computer.)

Words

At the Beginning

बन - forest

बल - power

बटन - button

बस - enough (also means "bus")

बदन - body

बतख - duck

बहस  (f)- argument, dispute, controversy 

बहन - sister


In the Middle

ऊबना - to be bored

दुबला - thin, weak

दबना - to be pressed

At the End

टब - tub

कब - when?

जब - when (statement... not the question word.  "When I go to the store, I will buy the milk."

सब - all

अब - now

सेब - apple

With other vowels

आबादी - population

आबाद - settled

ज़बानी - oral, unwritten

चबाना - to chew, to bite

धोबी - washerman

धोबिन - washerman's wife

साबुन - soap

साबुत - whole, undamaged

दबदबा  (m) - awe, overwhelming influence

Related Podcasts

Hindi Consonants Bundle - March 2009 - CD 2 Track 10

Other Resources

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