ãdherā I. mu dark, darkness: उसकी आँखों के सामने ~ छा गया it was all -- before his eyes; अँधेरे में मत पढ़ो don't read in the dark; ~ हो रहा है it is getting dark; घुप्प ~ pitch dark, utter darkness. II. a dark; ~ कमरा -- room; अँधेरी कोठरी dark room, prison cell [में बंद shut-up in the]; अँधेरी रात -- night; △ अँधेरे घर का उजाला (literally) light of the dark home, the only son; अँधेरे मुँह, मुँह अँधेरे at. dawn, very early in the morning [चला गया went away, वापस आ गया returned], [syn. अंधकार]