वर

Hindi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʋəɾ/,

Noun

वर • (var) m

1. bridegroom

References

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “वर”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “वर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Konkani

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese hora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

वर • (var) (Latin script vor, Kannada script ವರ್)

1. hour

   Synonym: तास (tās)

References

• Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017) IndoWordNet‎

Marathi

Alternative forms

वरी (varī) (literary, less common)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋəɾ/

Adverb

वर • (var)

1. up, upstairs
2. in addition

Postposition

वर • (var)

1. on, above
2. at
3. up to, until
4. in addition

Antonyms

• खाली (khālī)

References

• Berntsen, Maxine, “वर”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983.

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

वर

1. Devanagari script form of vara (“excellent”)

Declension

Noun

वर m or n

1. Devanagari script form of vara (“wish”)

Declension

Verb

वर

1. Devanagari script form of vara, which is second-person singular imperative active of वरति (varati, “to desire”)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wáras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáras, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, envelop”). The Sanskrit root is वृ (√vṛ, “to cover, screen, veil, conceal, hide, surround, obstruct”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ́.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɐ.ɾɐ/

Noun

वर • (vára) stem, m

1. "environing", "enclosing", circumference, space, room (RV., AV., TS.)

   वर आ पृथिव्याः (vára ā́ pṛthivyā́ḥ) — on the wide earth

2. stopping, checking (RV. I, 143, 5)

Declension

Descendants

• → Old Javanese: awara (“screen”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *warás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *warás, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁os (“chosen, wanted (person or thing)”). The Sanskrit root is वृ (√vṛ, “to choose, select”). The adjective (in the sense of "high quality") and noun (in the sense of "gift") developed from the notion of "select", "chosen".

Adjective

वर • (vará) stem

1. choosing

   पतिंवरा (patiṃ-varā) — a woman who chooses her husband for herself

   स्वयंवरा (svayaṃ-varā) — self-choice, the election of a husband by a princess or daughter of a kṣatriya at a public assembly of suitors

Declension

Noun

वर • (vará) stem, m

1. "chooser", one who solicits a girl in marriage, suitor, lover, bridegroom, husband (rarely "son-in-law") (RV. etc.)
2. a bridegroom's friend (MW.)
3. a dissolute man (= वित (vita) or षिड्ग (ṣiḍga)) (L.)

Declension

Adjective

वर • (vára) stem

1. "select", choicest, valuable, precious, best, most excellent or eminent among (genitive, locative, ablative, or compound) or for (genitive) (ŚrS., MBh. etc.)
2. (at the end of a compound) royal, princely (Jātakam.)
3. better, preferable, better than (ablative, rarely genitive) or among (ablative) (Mn., MBh. etc.)
4. eldest (W.)

Declension

Noun

वर • (vára) stem, m

1. boon, gift, reward, benefit, blessing, favour (RV. etc.)

   वराय (várāya), वरम् आ (váram ā́), प्रति वरम् (práti váram) or वरं वरम् (váraṃ varam) — according to wish, to one's heart's content

   मद्वरात् (mad-varāt) — in consequence of the boon granted by me

   váraṃ-√vṛ — to choose a boon

   varaṃ-√yāc or ā-√kāṅkṣ or √brū or causative of pra-√arth — to prefer a request

   váraṃ √dā, varam pra-√dā or pra-√yam — to grant a boon or blessing

   varaṃ-√labh — to receive a boon or reward

2. benefit, advantage, privilege (Daś.)
3. charity, alms (VarBṛS.)
4. dowry (Pañcat.)
5. a kind of grain (= वरत (varata)) (KātyŚr., Sch.)
6. bdellium (L.)
7. sparrow (L.)
8. name of a son of श्वफल्क (śvaphalka) (VP.)
9. saffron (BhP.) (in compounds not always separable from the homographic word meaning "enclosing, etc")

Declension

Descendants

• → Bengali: বর (bor)
• → Burmese: ဘုရား (bhu.ra:, “Buddha”)
• → Khamti: ၸြႃ (phraa, “Buddha”)
• Old Khmer: វ្រះ (vraḥ, “to be holy”)
  • Khmer: ព្រះ (preah, “Buddha”)
  • → Lao: ພຣະ (pha ra), ພະ (pha)
  • → Thai: พระ (prá, “royal; priestly; divine”), พร (pɔɔn, “blessing”)
• → Old Javanese: phra
  • Javanese: bra
• → Old Javanese: wara (“favour, gift”)
  • Javanese: ꦮꦫ (wara, “lady”)
  • → Balinese: ᬯᬭ (wara, “superior”)
• → Old Javanese: awara (“screen”)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਰ (var)

  Shahmukhi script: ور (var)

• → Tamil: வரம் (varam), வரன் (varaṉ)
• → Telugu: వరము (varamu, “blessing”), వరుడు (varuḍu, “excellent man; bridegroom; husband”)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “वर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0921, 0922.