بهار

Arabic

Etymology 1

Derived from Classical Persian بهار (bahār) in the sense of blossoms and foliage, as a great many spices are cultivated from the leaves of various plants and herbs.

Noun

بَهَار • (bahār) m (plural بَهَارَات (bahārāt))

1. oxeye (Buphthalmum spp.)

   Synonyms: عَرَار (ʕarār), عَيْن الْبَقَر (ʕayn al-baqar), رَبْد (rabd)

2. spice, seasoning

   Synonyms: تَابِل (tābil), أَبْزَار (ʔabzār), أَفَاوِيه (ʔafāwīh)

Declension

Derived terms

• بَهَار حُلْو (bahār ḥulw, “allspice”)

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: بهار (bhār)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بهار (bahar), պահար (bahar)
  • Turkish: bahar
  • → Armenian: պահար (pahar)
  • → Bulgarian: баха́р (bahár)
  • → Georgian: ბაჰარი (bahari)
  • → Greek: μπαχάρι (bachári)
  • → Laz: ბეჲარი (beyari)
  • → Macedonian: бахар (bahar)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бѐха̄р

    Latin script: bèhār

  • → Crimean Tatar: baar

(via plural form بَهَارَات (bahārāt)):

• → English: baharat
• → Turkish: baharat

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Urdu بھار (bhār) / Hindi भार (bhār).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /bu.haːr/
• (dialects also) IPA^(key): /ba.haːr/

Noun

بُهَار • (buhār) m (plural بُهَارَات (buhārāt)) (obsolete)

1. a dry measure (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. a container of such a measure, a bag
3. a weight measure varying according to place about 200 kilograms

Declension

Descendants

• → English: bahar

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بهار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 121
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 203
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “بهار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 266

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَهَار (bahār), from Classical Persian بهار (bahār).

Pronunciation

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /bhɑːr/

Noun

بْهار • (bhār) (dual بْهارين (bhārēn), plural بْهارات (bhārāt))

1. spice, seasoning

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• պահար (bahar) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian بهار (bahâr).

Noun

بهار • (bahar)

1. blossom
2. verdure
3. foliage
4. spring, the season

Derived terms

• بهارستان (baharistan, “spring season; park, garden”)

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic بَهَار (bahār).

Noun

بهار • (bahar)

1. spice

Derived terms

• یڭیبهار (yeñibahar, “allspice”)

Related terms

• قارنبهار (karnabahar, “cauliflower”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bahar
• → Armenian: պահար (pahar)
• → Bulgarian: баха́р (bahár)
• → Georgian: ბაჰარი (bahari)
• → Greek: μπαχάρι (bachári)
• → Laz: ბეჲარი (beyari)
• → Macedonian: бахар (bahar)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бѐха̄р

  Latin script: bèhār

• → Crimean Tatar: baar

Persian

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

بهار

Wikipedia ^fa

Alternative forms

• باهار (bâhâr)

Etymology

From Middle Persian whʾl (wahār), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎠𐏃𐎼 (v-a-h-r), from Proto-Iranian *wáhār, collective of *wáhr̥, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wásr̥, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).

Compare Mazanderani وهار (vehār), Talysh اوسور (əvəsor), Laki وهار (whar), Zazaki wesar, Central Kurdish به‌هار (behar). Other cognates include Old Armenian գարուն (garun), Latin ver, Ancient Greek ἔαρ (éar), Old Church Slavonic весна (vesna), Lithuanian vãsara, Old Norse vár.

Pronunciation

Noun

بهار • (bahâr)

1. spring (season)
2. blossom

Related terms

• بهاری (bahâri)
• بهاره (bahâre)
• بهاران (bahârân)
• بهارستان (bahârestân)

Descendants

• → Armenian: բահար (bahar)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܗܵܪ (bahār)
• → Azerbaijani: bahar
• → Bengali: বাহার (bahar)
• → Hindustani:

  → Hindi: बहार (bahār)

  → Urdu: بہار (bahār)

• → Ottoman Turkish: بهار (bahar), պահար (bahar)
  • Turkish: bahar
  • → Armenian: պահար (pahar)
  • → Bulgarian: баха́р (bahár)
  • → Georgian: ბაჰარი (bahari)
  • → Greek: μπαχάρι (bachári)
  • → Laz: ბეჲარი (beyari)
  • → Macedonian: бахар (bahar)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бѐха̄р

    Latin script: bèhār

  • → Crimean Tatar: baar
• → Punjabi: ਬਹਾਰ (bahār)
• → Sindhi: بهار (bahāra)
• → Uzbek: bahor

Proper noun

بهار • (bahâr)

1. a female given name, Bahar, from Middle Persian

See also

• (seasons) صل‌ها (fasl-hâ); بهار (bahâr), تابستان (tâbestân), پاییز (pâyiz), زمستان (zemestân) ^{(Category: fa:Seasons)}

References

Sindhi

Etymology

From Classical Persian بهار (bahār). Compare Urdu بہار (bahār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

بهار • (bahāra) f (Devanagari बहार)

1. (season) spring
2. blossom

See also

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَهَار (bahār), from Classical Persian بهار (bahār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bhaːr/,

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Noun

بهار • (bhār) m (plural بهارات (bhārāt))

1. spice