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That is a beautiful
calendar.
This wardrobe 19 is
spacious.
Which type of wardrobe
lasts long?
I gave her a ceramic
vase.
I saw a Chinese carved
lacquer vase 22 in the
museum.
वह एक सुंदर
कै ल�डर है ।
यह अलमार� 20 �व�तृत है ।
�कस �कार के अलमार� लंबे समय
तक रहता है ?
मैने उसे एक मृि�तका 21 का गुलदान
�दया ।
मैने सं�हालय म� एक चीनी
Vah ek sundar calendar hai
Yah almari vistrut hai
Kis prakar ke almari lambe
samay tak rahta hai
Maine use ek mrutika ka guldaan
diya
Maine sangrahalay mein ek chini
nakkasheedar lah phooldaan
dekha
19 ATTENTION: While wardrobe (ward+robe) should refer to a small room
or cabinet for holding clothes, it has come to mean in American parlance
the collection of clothes or costumes within the wardrobe… which makes
the answer to the next question (Which type of wardrobe lasts long?) “The
type that is never worn”! The correct term for the small room in Hindi is
तोशाख़ाना, or, more properly, in an earlier epoch, तोशक ख़ाना. तोशक is
also either a two-ply chador (like a quilt) or a soft mattress.
20 Synonym: कोठर�
21 मृि�तका /�म�ी is earthenware or clay and therefore not as fine as what
some consider ceramic. The Oriental type (porcelain) is usually referred to
as चीनी �म�ी का (because made from from china clay, i.e., kaolin), �चनाई
�म�ी, or चीनी का बरतन; still, we also see transliterations of the English,
as in पो�स�लेन, (कज�रया) �सरे�मक/ �सरे�म�स/ सेरा�मक/ सेरा�म�स, these
latter often referring to tile.
22 These vases are generally carved from cinnebar wood soaked in the sap of
the Lacquer or Varnish Tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum, formerly named
Rhues Verniciflua), called in Hindi, वा�न�श वृ�. Cinnebar (the wood) is not
to be confused with cinnabar, mercuric sulfide, which in Hindi is
�गुर/ �हंगुल * and used to make vermilion, �संदूर /�स�दूर/ �संग�रफ. [*