بحر

From Proto-West Semitic *baḥr- (“sea”), from the root ب ح ر (b-ḥ-r).

• IPA^(key): /baħr/

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بَحْر • (baḥr) m (plural بِحَار (biḥār) or بُحُور (buḥūr) or أَبْحُر (ʔabḥur))

1. verbal noun of بَحَرَ (baḥara) (form I)
2. sea

   Coordinate terms: بَرّ (barr), جَوّ (jaww)

   فِي الْصَّيْفِ، نُحِبُّ قِضَاءَ وَقْتٍ مُمْتَعٍ عَلَى شَوَاطِئِ الْبَحْرِ.

   fī l-ṣṣayfi, nuḥibbu qiḍāʔa waqtin mumtaʕin ʕalā šawāṭiʔi l-baḥri.

   In the summer, we love spending enjoyable time on the seashore.

3. large river
4. a noble or great man (possessed of a sea of knowledge, experience and wisdom)
5. (poetry) poetic meter

Denominal verb from بَحْر (baḥr, “sea”).

• IPA^(key): /baħ.ħa.ra/

بَحَّرَ • (baḥḥara) II (non-past يُبَحِّرُ (yubaḥḥiru), verbal noun تَبْحِير (tabḥīr))

1. to travel by sea, to make a voyage

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħi.ra/

بَحِرَ • (baḥira) I (non-past يَبْحَرُ (yabḥaru), verbal noun بَحَر (baḥar))

1. to be startled, to be bewildered with fright

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħa.ra/

بَحَرَ • (baḥara) I (non-past يَبْحَرُ (yabḥaru), verbal noun بَحْر (baḥr))

1. to slit, to cut lengthwise
2. to split
3. to enlarge, to make wide

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħar/

بَحَر • (baḥar) m

1. verbal noun of بَحِرَ (baḥira) (form I)

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “بحر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 87–88
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “بحر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 88–89
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “بحر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 156–157
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بحر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 66–67

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

• IPA^(key): /bəħər/

بَحَر • (baḥar) m (before il- بَحْر (baḥr), plural بِحَار (biḥār))

1. sea
2. beach

   Synonym: (dated or obsolete) جال (jāl)

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

• IPA^(key): /baħar/

بحر • (baḥar) m (construct state بَحْر (baḥr), plural بحور (buḥūr) or بحار (biḥār))

1. sea
2. beach

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

• IPA^(key): /bħar/

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بحر • (bḥar) m (plural بحور (bḥūr) or بحار (bḥār))

1. sea
2. beach

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

بحر • (bahr)

1. (geography) sea

   Synonyms: دكز, دریا

• بحر سیاه (Bahr-i Siyah, “Black Sea”)

• Turkish: bahir

• Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “sea”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 667

Borrowed from Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

بحر • (bahr) m

1. sea
2. (Poetry) meter, rhythm

Borrowed from Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

بَحْر • (bahr)

1. (Dari,otherwise obsolete) sea

   Synonym: دَریا (daryâ)

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ħar/,

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بحر • (baḥar) m (plural أبحار (ʔabḥār) or بحار (bḥār) or بحور (bḥūr))

1. sea

• البحر الميت (il-baḥr il-mayyet, “Dead Sea”)
• البحر الأحمر (il-baḥr il-ʔaḥmar, “Red Sea”)
• البحر الأبيض المتوسط (il-baḥr il-ʔabyaḍ il-mutawasseṭ, “Mediterranean Sea”)

• بحيرة (buḥayra, “lake”)
• محيط (muḥīṭ, “ocean”)

Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:

بحر (سمندر)

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بحر (شاعری)

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Borrowed from Classical Persian بحر (bahr), from Arabic بَحْر (baḥr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəɦɾ/

بَحْر • (bahr) m (formal plural بحار, Hindi spelling बहर)

1. (geography) ocean

   بحرِ ہند ― bahr-e-hind ― Indian Ocean

2. sea
3. meter

• (sea): سمندر (samandar), بحیرہ (bahīrā), ساگر (sāgar)