gunā a [used with numerals or words denoting number] (so many) times, fold; दुगुना twofold; तिग़ुना three times, threefold; चौगुना four times; कई गुना several times: मोहन सोहन से कई ~ अच्छा है Mohan is several times better than Sohan; सौ गुना hundred times.

chāū- [short prefixal form of चार] four-, as in चौकन्ना lit. four eared; चौकोर lit. having four sides; चौखट lit having four woods; चौगुना four times; चौमंज़िला four-storeyed; चौरस्ता lit. having four paths.

chāūgunā a four times as much; उसके पास मुझसे ~ रुपया है he has four times as much money as I have. △ मन ~ बढ़ना/होना to feel highly encouraged.

din mc 1. (a) day [छोटा short, लंबा long, दूसरा second, अगले/दूसरे next]; काम (छुट्टी, आठ घंटे) का ~ working (free, eight-hour) --; छुट्टी का ~ holiday; बड़ा ~ Christmas day; आज क्या दिन है what -- is it today ? ~ में तीन बार three times a --; ~ को/में in the --; सारा --, दिन भर all -- long, throughout the --; प्रति ~ हर ~ every --, daily; हर तीसरे ~ every third day; हर दूसरे every other --; उस ~ the other --; इन दिनों these --s; ~ प्रति/ब ~ day by day; ~ आता है (बीतता/कटता है) the -- comes (passes); ~ खोना/गँवाना (गिनना, बिताना) to lose (count in waiting, spend) --s; ~ का अंत हो गया the -- closed/ended; ~ -- light; ~ की पारी -- shift; ~ के वक्‍त/समय in the day-time. [syn. रोज़] (b) time: △ ~ काटना to pass one's days willy-nilly (in hardship); ~ को तारे दिखाई देना to be perplexed; ~ को ~ और रात को रात न समझना to be too busy to take notice of time; ~ दहाड़े in broad day-light, openly; ~ दूना रात चौगुना बढ़ना to grow by leaps and bounds; ~ पूरे करना to drag out one's days, to live on somehow; ~ फिरना to begin to have better times; ~ भारी होना to be in straintened circumstances. 2. sun: ~ चढ़ता (छिपता, ढलता, निकलता) है the -- rises (sets, goes down, comes out); ~ चढ़े late in the morning; ~ ढले late in the afternoon.