ہیر

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Kashmiri

Perso-Arabic ہیر (hyr)
Devanagari हेर (hēr)
Sharada

Noun

ہیر • (hēr) f

  1. a ladder
  2. a staircase, a flight of stairs

Urdu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀻𑀭 (hīra), from Sanskrit हीर (hīra).

Pronunciation

Noun

ہیر • (hīr) m (Hindi spelling हीर)

  1. diamond
  2. essence, elemental part, pith, gist
  3. vigour, energy

Proper noun

ہیر • (hīr) f (Hindi spelling हीर)

  1. Heer, the female tragic lover from a classical Punjabi romantic legend
  2. (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, 2025.
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