چور

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See also: خور, جور, خوز, and جوز

Southeast Pashayi

Etymology

From Sanskrit चोर (cora).

Noun

چور (čōr)

  1. thief

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi چور (cvr /⁠cor⁠/) (c. 1392),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀘𑁄𑀭 (cora), from Sanskrit चोर (corá), चौर (caurá).[2] Compare Romani chor.

Pronunciation

Noun

چور • (cor) m (Hindi spelling चोर)

  1. thief
  2. (figuratively) an untrustable; evil person
  3. ulcer

Declension

    Declension of چور
singular plural
direct چور (cor) چور (cor)
oblique چور (cor) چوروں (corõ)
vocative چور (cor) چورو (coro)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “چور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “cōrá1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

More information
  • “چور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “چور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “چور”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “چور”, 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
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