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Head and face: सिर (head), बाल (hair), आँख (eye), कान (ear), नाक (nose), मुँह (mouth), दाँत (tooth), जीभ (tongue), गला (throat)
Body: गर्दन (neck), कंधा (shoulder), हाथ (hand/arm), उँगली (finger), पेट (stomach), पीठ (back), पैर (foot/leg), घुटना (knee)
Inside: दिल (heart), दिमाग़ (brain), खून (blood)
आँख becomes आँखें (aankhein) for eyes; कान stays कान. The -एं plural applies to feminine nouns, and body parts are split between genders with no shortcut. Learn each with its plural when you meet it.
The construction is not "I have a headache" but "to me, head-pain is happening":
मेरे सिर में दर्द है (mere sir mein dard hai) — my head hurts.
Swap सिर for any body part and the sentence still works. दर्द (dard) is pain, and it is the same दर्द you have heard in a hundred Hindi songs.
Anatomically it is the heart. In use it is feeling, courage, appetite, will. दिल नहीं लग रहा — "my heart isn't settling" — means bored, restless, homesick. You will hear it constantly.
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