шаһар

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic شاهار
İske imlâ شهر
Cyrillic шаһар
Latin şahar
Yañalif cahar

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شهر (šahr, a city, a town), from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (štry /⁠šahr⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *xšaθram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám n. Vowels of both syllables had become back due to the influence of intervocalic Persian glottal consonant ـهـ (-h-).

Compare also Tatar шәһәр (şähär); Uzbek shahar, Uyghur شەھەر (sheher); Azerbaijani şəhər, Turkish şehir; etc.

Noun

шаһар (şahar)

  1. (literary) city, town

Declension

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