Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Use of double adjectives in Hindi

Someone asked if double-adjectives are used in Hindi.

In my opinion (IMO) it depends on the style of the writer/speaker whether he wants to use two adjectives or not. For example, let us see this poem from the great poet Nagarjun:

अमल धवल गिरि के शिखरों पर,
बादल को घिरते देखा है।
छोटे-छोटे मोती जैसे
उसके शीतल तुहिन कणों को,
मानसरोवर के उन स्वर्णिम
कमलों पर गिरते देखा है,
बादल को घिरते देखा है। [Ref]

In the first line, the poet uses two adjectives for the mountain (giri), i.e. "amal dhawal". "Amal" means "pure" or "without any impurity" and "dhawal" means "white".

So you can say that even in this Hindi poem, the word "amal" is emphasizing the other color adjective "dhawal"...

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