وقار

From Proto-Semitic *waqar- (“to be heavy or weighty; a tree laden with fruits; to be honorable or to hold weight in value”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *waqar-; compare Egyptian jqr (“excellent, worthy”) and Hebrew יָקָר (“expensive, dear, precious”).

• IPA^(key): /wa.qaːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

وَقَار • (waqār) m (plural وُقُور (wuqūr))

1. dignity, grandeur
2. majesty
3. sobriety
4. veneration

• → Persian: وقار (vaqâr)
  • → Urdu: وقار (vaqār)

Borrowed from Arabic وَقَار (waqār).

وقار • (vaqâr)

1. dignity, grandeur, majesty
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 80:

     ناگفته یک سخن دل و جان صید میکنی
     ای ناز و دلبری بتو لایق وقار هم

     nāgufta yak suxan dil u jān sayd mēkunī
     ay nāz u dilbarē ba-tō lāyiq-i waqār ham

     The heart has not uttered a word and you are hunting the soul,
     O you by whom even flirting and heart-capturing become worthy of dignity!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian وَقَار (waqār), borrowed from Arabic وَقَار (waqār), from Proto-Semitic *waqar-. First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi وقار (vqar /⁠vaqār⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋə.qɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: وَ‧قار

وَقار • (vaqār) m (Hindi spelling वक़ार)

1. dignity, honour, prestige
2. serenity, solemnity, modesty
3. consistency, resolution

وَقار • (vaqār) m (Hindi spelling वक़ार)

1. a male given name from Arabic

• “وقار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “وقار”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]