دار

Arabic

Etymology 1

Derived from the active participle of the verb دَرَّ (darra, “to flow copiously”).

Adjective

دَارّ • (dārr) (feminine دَارَّة (dārra), masculine plural دَارُّونَ (dārrūna), feminine plural دَارَّات (dārrāt))

1. flowing copiously
2. productive, rich, lucrative
3. profitable

Declension

Etymology 2

The noun originally referred to the buildings surrounding a court. Cognate with Akkadian 𒂦 (dūrum, “city wall”) and Biblical Hebrew דּוּר (dûr, “to move in a circle”), דָּר (dār, “to dwell”) and דּוֹר (dôr, “habitation”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daːr/

Verb

دَارَ • (dāra) I, non-past يَدُورُ‎ (yadūru)

1. to turn, to revolve, to rotate

   تَدُورُ ٱلْأَرْضُ حَوْلَ ٱلشَّمْسِ.

   tadūru l-ʔarḍu ḥawla š-šamsi.

   The Earth revolves around the Sun.

2. to go around, to circulate
3. to go around, to move around

Conjugation

Noun

دَار • (dār) f (plural دُور (dūr) or دِيَار (diyār) or دِيَارَات (diyārāt) or دِيَرَة (diyara))

1. house
2. building, structure, edifice
3. land, country

Declension

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 470–471
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 69
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “دار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 930
• Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009) “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 172, with the exaggerated claim of دَار (dār, “house”) being an Aramaic loan-word
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 343–344

Bakhtiari

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Etymology

From Middle Persian dār, from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /⁠dāruv⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru. Cognate with Persian دار, Laki دار (dar), Central Kurdish دار (dar), Northern Kurdish dar, Tat dar, Talysh do, Mazanderani دار, Baluchi دار.

Noun

دار (daar)

1. tree

References

Baluchi

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Noun

دار • (dár)

1. wood
2. stick

Central Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Noun

دار (dar)

1. tree
2. wood (substance, timber)
3. stick, staff, rod

Mazanderani

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Noun

دار (dâr)

1. tree

Moroccan Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

Etymology 1

From Arabic أَدَارَ (ʔadāra, “to manage, to operate”).

Verb

دار • (dār) I (non-past يدير (ydīr))

1. to do

   Synonym: عمل (ʕmal)

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Arabic دَارَ (dāra).

Verb

دار • (dār) I (non-past يدور (ydūr))

1. to turn
2. to go around
3. to rotate

Conjugation

Etymology 3

From Arabic دَار (dār).

Noun

دار • (dār) f (plural ديور (dyūr) or ديورة (dyūra), diminutive دويرة (dwīra))

1. house
2. family, folks

   قلت للدار باللي ما جايش للمغرب هاد راس العام.

   qult l-ed-dār belli ma jāyši l-el-maḡrib hād rās el-ʕām

   I told my family I won't be coming to Morocco at the end of the year.

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic دار (dār, “house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːr/

Noun

دار • (dār) m

1. living-room

   تفضل، قاعدين سوا بالدار.

   tfaḍḍal, ʾāʿdīn sawa bi-d-dār

   Come in, we’re all sitting in the living-room.

Persian

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (dʾl, “tree, gallows; wood”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /⁠dāruv⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dāru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Noun

دار • (dâr)

1. tree
2. gallows
3. wood

Derived terms

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 24

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

دار • (dâr)

1. present stem of داشتن (dâštan, “to have”)

Suffix

ـدار • (-dâr)

1. a suffix indicating ownership in compound words

   ‎پول (pul, “money”) + ‎ـدار → ‎پولدار (puldâr, “rich”)

   ‎حساب (hesâb, “account”) + ‎ـدار → ‎حسابدار (hesâbdâr, “accountant”)

   ‎دل (del, “heart”) + ‎ـدار → ‎دلدار (deldâr, “beloved”)

   ‎سر (sar, “head”) + ‎ـدار → ‎سردار (sardâr, “military commander”)

   ‎شهر (šahr, “city”) + ‎ـدار → ‎شهردار (šahrdâr, “mayor”)

   ‎صندوق (sanduq, “box”) + ‎ـدار → ‎صندوقدار (sanduqdâr, “treasurer”)

   ‎کتاب (ketâb, “book”) + ‎ـدار → ‎کتابدار (ketâbdâr, “librarian”)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: -dar
• → Bengali: -দার (-dar)
• → Chagatai: ـدار
  • Uyghur: ـدار (-dar)
  • Uzbek: -dor
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: -दार (-dār)
  • Urdu: ـدار (-dār)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ـدار
  • Turkish: -dar
• → Turkmen: -dar

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دار+dār”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic دَار (dār).

Noun

دار • (dâr)

1. house
2. seat

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, volume 1, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim, page 780
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

South Levantine Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːr/,

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Etymology 1

From Arabic دَارَ (dāra).

Verb

دار • (dār) I (present بدور (bidūr), active participle داير (dāyer))

1. (intransitive) to revolve, to turn
2. to roam, to travel around, to wander about

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Arabic أَدَارَ (ʔadāra).

Alternative forms

• أدار (ʔadār)

Verb

دار • (dār) I (present بدير (bidīr))

1. (transitive) to turn, to direct (toward)
2. to administer, to manage, to run
3. to pour out

   ديرلي شاي!

   dīr-li šay

   Pour me out some tea!

Conjugation

See also

• دار باله (dār bālo, “to be careful”)

Etymology 3

From Arabic دَار (dār).

Noun

دار • (dār) f (plural دور (dūr))

1. house, home

   Synonym: بيت (bēt)

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːɾ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـدار (-dār).

Suffix

ـدار • (-dār) (Hindi spelling -दार)

1. having, possessing, holding

Examples

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian دار (dār).

Noun

دار • (dār) m (Hindi spelling दार)

1. wood
2. gallows

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic دَار (dār).

Noun

دار • (dār) m (Hindi spelling दार)

1. house
2. seat

Declension

References

• “دار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “دار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Noun

دار (dār)

1. a sloping place on a mountain