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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مُوسِيقَار (mūsīqār, “musician”), from Classical Syriac ܡܘܣܝܩܪܐ (mūsīqārā, “musician”), from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikós, “musician”).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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mūsīqār
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| Dari reading?
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mūsīqār
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| Iranian reading?
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musiğâr
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| Tajik reading?
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musiqor
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Noun
موسیقار • (musiqâr)
- panpipes
- a fictitious bird that is said to sing beautifully
c. 1911, Mohammad Hossein Âğuli Torki-ye Shirâzi, دیوان ترکی شیرازی:من بیچاره از غمش شب و روز
در فغانم چو مرغ موسیقار- man bičâre az ğam-aš šab o ruz
dar fağân-am ču morğ-e musiqâr - Day and night, I am helpless out of love-grief for him/her;
In my crying, I am like the musiqâr bird.
- (obsolete) musician
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian موسیقار (mūsīqār), from Arabic مُوسِيقَار (mūsīqār, “musician”), from Classical Syriac ܡܘܣܝܩܪܐ (mūsīqārā, “musician”), from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikós, “musician”).
Pronunciation
Noun
مُوسِیقار • (mūsīqār) m (Hindi spelling मूसीक़ार)
- musician (by extension, a singer)
- phoenix bird
- panpipes an instrument/pipe used by shepherd's or devises
- (figurative) an instrument (ie. to describe a human as an instrument – not necessarily dehumanizing)
Declension
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)
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مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)
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| oblique
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مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)
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مُوسِیقاروں (mūsīqārō̃)
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| vocative
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مُوسِیقار (mūsīqār)
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مُوسِیقارو (mūsīqārō)
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Further reading
- “موسیقار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “موسیقار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “موسيقار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “موسيقار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1091
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “موسيقار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1134
- John Shakespear (1834) “موسیقار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC