Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Hindi term or phrase:
घर घर की कहानी
English translation:
The story of every home or household
Hindi term
घर घर की कहानी
The individual words are no problem, but why is घर repeated in घर घर की कहानी? Does this happen a lot in Hindi? Is it only colloquial or also literary?
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Simon
Jul 6, 2008 19:18: Will Matter changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Jul 8, 2008 14:56: C.M. Rawal Created KOG entry
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Proposed translations
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Hindi Translator you can bank upon
Native in: Hindi
Works in: English to Hindi, Hindi to English
The story of every home or household
Here घर घर की कहानी means the story of every home. If it is घर की कहानी, then the meaning would be the story of a home or house.
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The second part of your question (Does this happen a lot in Hindi? Is it only colloquial or also literary?) remained unanswered.
Yes, this happens a lot in Hindi. It is both colloquial and literary. In Hindi, you can find expressions like बाल बाल बचना, दर दर की ठोकर खाना, दर दर जाना, रो रो कर आसमान सिर पर उठाना, तरह तरह के, भिन्न भिन्न प्रकार के, अलग अलग, भाँति भाँति के, सुबह सुबह, बहते बहते, निकलते निकलते, चलते चलते, रुक रुक कर, संभल संभल कर, पकड़ पकड़ कर, घूम घूम कर, घुमा घुमा कर, तड़फ तड़फ कर, बिलख बिलख कर, झूम झूम कर, हँस हँस कर, etc. You would see that the repetition of a noun or a verb here generally changes the meaning to plural or refers to the continuity of something but sometimes it gives a new meaning also.
Italy
translating meaning, not just words
Native in: English 
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, English
tales from many homes
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Ramesh Bhatt
: A solitary "tale" is specified not "tales"--and it is the tale of "every home."
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thanks! but I meant that with so many houses involved there had to be many tales, whether it the same in every instance or not.
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homes - The saga of the tale of every home (or all homes).
In Hindi, as in many other Indian languages, a repetition indicates "more than one" (or many). Plural modifiers for nouns are rare, if they exist at all. So, adjectives (connoting "many) or repetitions of the noun are used.
Indians often use English in a similar way. To emphasize a multitude, they may say, "There were many, many, many people who attended the ceremony." Within the colloquial Indian context, this sounds perfectly acceptable to most Indian ears.
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EDIT: Please read "The saga OR the tale of every home." (Apologies for the typo.)
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Ramesh Bhatt
: "The saga of the tale" makes no sense. Saga itself is nothing but a tale. Yes "Or" in place of "Of" is perfectly alright. Typing error can produce wonders sometimes.
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You are right, of course. But, within a minute of my original post, I added a note. Would you take a look at that, please? Thank you.
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Nitin Goyal
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Thank you.
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Will Matter
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Thank you.
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Rajesh Srivastava
: I agree with your edit note.
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Quality & Commitment
Native in: Hindi (Variants: Khariboli, Indian)
Works in: English to Hindi, Hindi to English
Issue/matter of every house/everyone.
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Ramesh Bhatt
: "Story" can itself be a synonym for "issue", "Problem", etc., can't it be? However, the variants you suggested are quite in order.
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Thanks, Ramesh!
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The story of each and every family/ The tale of every family
Here 'घर' is not house, is not home, it means 'family'- group of individuals with many relations live in the house.
The story is not about houses but about the persons bounded by the relations living in the same house. This is 'family' which consists of 'घर'.
Quality strictly taken care of.
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, German to English, English, and 5 more.
universally applicable
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or uuniversally prevelant
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