آخر

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Arabic

Root
ء خ ر (ʔ ḵ r)
8 terms

Etymology 1.1

Adjective and noun of the active participle form فَاعِل (fāʕil).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaː.xir/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

آخِر (ʔāḵir) (feminine آخِرَة (ʔāḵira), common plural أَوَاخِر (ʔawāḵir), masculine plural آخِرُون (ʔāḵirūn), feminine plural آخِرَات (ʔāḵirāt))

  1. last, ultimate, utmost, extreme
Declension
See also

Noun

آخِر (ʔāḵirm (plural أَوَاخِر (ʔawāḵir))

  1. end, conclusion
  2. bottom, foot
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 1.2

Elative adjective of the form أَفْعَل (ʔafʕal). The sequence *ʔaʔ in *أَأْخَر (*ʔaʔḵar) and *أَأْخَرُون (*ʔaʔḵarūn) changed to ʾā by compensatory lengthening.

Pronunciation

Adjective

آخَر (ʔāḵar) (feminine أُخْرَى (ʔuḵrā), masculine plural آخَرُون (ʔāḵarūn), feminine plural أُخَر (ʔuḵar) or أُخْرَيَات (ʔuḵrayāt))

  1. another, one more, other
Declension
Derived terms

Khalaj

Noun

آخِر (âxır) (definite accusative آخِرؽ, plural آخِرلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of âxır (end)

Declension

Moroccan Arabic

Root
و خ ر
2 terms

Etymology 1

From Arabic آخَر (ʔāḵar).

Pronunciation

Adjective

آخر (ʔāḵur) (feminine أخرى (ʔuḵra), masculine plural آخرين (ʔāḵrīn) or أخرين (ʔuḵrīn), feminine plural أخرات (ʔuḵrāt))

  1. another, one more, other

Etymology 2

From Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir).

Pronunciation

Adjective

آخر (ʔāḵir)

  1. last
    Synonym: أخير (ʔaḵīr)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic آخَر (ʔāḵar).

Adjective

آخر (âher)

  1. another
  2. other

Etymology 2

From Old Anatolian Turkish (āχır), from Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir).

Adjective

آخر (âhir)

  1. last

Adverb

آخر (âhir)

  1. at last
  2. finally

Noun

آخر (âhir)

  1. end, conclusion
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir, last).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? āxir
Dari reading? āxir
Iranian reading? âxer, âxar
Tajik reading? oxir

Adjective

Dari آخر
Iranian Persian
Tajik охир

آخر (âxer)

  1. last
Inflection
    Predicative forms of آخر (âxer)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)
آخرم
(âxeram)
آخریم
(âxerim)
2nd person
(“you are”)
آخری
(âxeri)
آخرید
(âxerid)
آخرین
(âxerin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
آخر است
(âxer ast)
آخره
(âxere)
آخرند
(âxerand)
آخرن
(âxeran)
Colloquial.

Adverb

آخر (âxer)

  1. at last
  2. finally

Noun

آخر (âxer)

  1. end
    • 1967, Samad Behrangi, ماهی سیاه کوچولو [The Little Black Fish]:
      می‌خواهم بروم ببینم آخرِ جویبار کجاست.
      mi-xâham be-ravam be-binam âxar-e juybâr kojâ-st.
      I want to go and see where the end of the stream is.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آخَر (ʔāḵar, another).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? āxar
Dari reading? āxar
Iranian reading? âxar
Tajik reading? oxar

Adjective

آخر (âxar)

  1. another, different, second

Etymology 3

Noun

آخر (âxor)

  1. Alternative form of آخور (âxor)

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ء خ ر
6 terms

Etymology

From Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir).

Pronunciation

Noun

آخر (ʔāḵerm

  1. end
    Synonym: نهاية (nihāye)
    Antonyms: أوّل (ʔawwal), بداية (bidāye)
    آخر الأسبوعʔāḵer il-ʔusbūʕthe weekend
    Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Adjective

آخر (ʔāḵer)

  1. last, final
    Antonym: أوّل (ʔawwal)
    هاي آخر مرّة بستنّاك.
    hāy ʔāḵer marra bastannāk
    This is the last time I'm waiting for you.
    Audio (Birzeit):(file)
  2. last, most recent
    Synonym: أخير (ʔaḵīr)
    مش عارف إيمتى آخر مرّة سمعت هالجملة.
    miš ʕāref ʔēmta ʔāḵer marra smeʕt hal-jumle
    I don't know when the last time I heard that sentence was.
    Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Usage notes

  • آخر (ʔāḵer) is used like an elative, preceding the noun it modifies without taking the definite article.

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آخر (āxir), Arabic آخِر (ʔāḵir).

Adverb

آخر (āxir) (Hindi spelling आख़िर)

  1. after all
  2. at last

Noun

آخر (āxirm (Hindi spelling आख़िर)

  1. end