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Kashmiri
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ہیر (hyr)
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| Devanagari
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हेर (hēr)
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| Sharada
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Noun
ہیر • (hēr) f
- a ladder
- a staircase, a flight of stairs
Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀻𑀭 (hīra), from Sanskrit हीर (hīra).
Pronunciation
Noun
ہیر • (hīr) m (Hindi spelling हीर)
- diamond
- essence, elemental part, pith, gist
- vigour, energy
Proper noun
ہیر • (hīr) f (Hindi spelling हीर)
- Heer, the female tragic lover from a classical Punjabi romantic legend
- (by extension) a tragic lover
References
- “ہیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہیر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “ہیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “ہیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.