بهر

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See also: بٕۂر and بٕہٕر

Arabic

Root
ب ه ر (b h r)
3 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

بَهَرَ (bahara) I (non-past يَبْهَرُ (yabharu), verbal noun بُهُور (buhūr))

  1. to allure, to blind, to seduce
  2. to dazzle
  3. to glimmer, to shine, to illuminate
    Synonyms: أَضاءَ (ʔaḍāʔa), تَأَلَّقَ (taʔallaqa)
    بَهَرَتِ ٱلشَّمْسُ ٱلْبِقَاعَ وَٱلسُّهُولَbaharati š-šamsu l-biqāʕa was-suhūlaThe sun illuminated the places and the plains.

Conjugation

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (bʾhl /⁠bahr⁠/, share, portion).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? bahr
Dari reading? bahr
Iranian reading? bahr
Tajik reading? bahr

Noun

بهر (bahr)

  1. share, portion
    • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The tale of Suhrāb”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎:
      چو بر دشت مر رخش را یافتند
      سوی بند کردنش بشتافتند
      گرفتند و بردند پویان به شهر
      همی هر یک از رخش جستند بهر
      čū bar dašt mar raxš rā yāftand
      sōy-i band kardan-aš bištāftand
      giriftand u burdand pūyān ba šahr
      hamē har yak az raxš justand bahr
      When they found Rakhsh on the plain,
      They hastened to bind him.
      They took him and brought him to the city trotting,
      Each of them all sought their share of Rakhsh.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  2. sake; usually in از بهر (az bahr-e, for the sake of).

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بهر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim