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Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / Idioms | | Hindi term or phrase: अरे, रहने दो ! बारिश होने दो ! | Greetings,
I’m putting all of this up in case it’s a set phrase or something. The translation of अरे, रहने दो ! बारिश होने दो !, which appears in Teach Yourself Hindi by R. Snell, is given as “Oh, let it be ! Let it rain !”
However, the translation is a bit ambiguous in English. Is this a genuine wish for rain, in which case I would have said, “Oh, let it happen ! Let it rain !” or is the meaning almost the opposite i.e. “If it’s going to rain let it rain, I don’t care.”
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Simon |
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| | English translation:Oh, come on ! Just leave it. Let the rain come down! | Explanation:
The interjection अरे is often used to attract attention of people to pursuade them to do/say/believe something from the speaker's own point of view. Hence it often corresponds to the English phrase "Come on!", "just try to understand!" etc.
रहने दो as a single phrase has the meaning "just leave it alone", "let it be as it is", "let it go on its own course", "let the matter be dropped", or "please don't meddle with it" etc.
But if you use रहने दो as a normal verb with other words, it has the usual meaning "to stay" etc. For example: "इस बच्चे को उसकी माँ के पास रहने दो-is bachche ko us kii maa ke paas rahne do" : let this baby stay with its mother.
बारिश होना is to have rainfall, (for rain) to pour, to come down.
बारिश baarish is a feminine word, so please use the verb accordingly:
बारिश हो रही है (baarish ho rahii hai) - it's raining
काफ़ी देर तक बारिश हुई (kaafii der tak baarish huii) - it rained for quite a long time.
बारिश नहीं हुई (baarish nahiin huii) - there was no rainfall.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-08-12 07:22:42 GMT)
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In your example, I think the idea is that the speaker does not care to get wet in case a rainfall should occur immediately. However, some more sentences from that dialogue could give us the real connotation. |
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44 mins confidence:   If it has to rain, then let it happen.
Explanation:
The way I've translated it maybe expresses the meaning better.
With the "arre" (usually indicates vexation) I think it indicates resignation. You can't do anything about it! So your second meaning would be right. Let it rain, see if I care.
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1 hr confidence: Oh, come on ! Just leave it. Let the rain come down!
Explanation:
The interjection अरे is often used to attract attention of people to pursuade them to do/say/believe something from the speaker's own point of view. Hence it often corresponds to the English phrase "Come on!", "just try to understand!" etc.
रहने दो as a single phrase has the meaning "just leave it alone", "let it be as it is", "let it go on its own course", "let the matter be dropped", or "please don't meddle with it" etc.
But if you use रहने दो as a normal verb with other words, it has the usual meaning "to stay" etc. For example: "इस बच्चे को उसकी माँ के पास रहने दो-is bachche ko us kii maa ke paas rahne do" : let this baby stay with its mother.
बारिश होना is to have rainfall, (for rain) to pour, to come down.
बारिश baarish is a feminine word, so please use the verb accordingly:
बारिश हो रही है (baarish ho rahii hai) - it's raining
काफ़ी देर तक बारिश हुई (kaafii der tak baarish huii) - it rained for quite a long time.
बारिश नहीं हुई (baarish nahiin huii) - there was no rainfall.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-08-12 07:22:42 GMT)
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In your example, I think the idea is that the speaker does not care to get wet in case a rainfall should occur immediately. However, some more sentences from that dialogue could give us the real connotation.
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