वार

Borrowed from Sanskrit वार (vāra).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɑːɾ/,

वार • (vār) m (Urdu spelling وار)

1. assault, attack

   Synonyms: आक्रमण (ākramaṇ), हमला (hamlā), प्रहार (prahār), धावा (dhāvā), चढ़ाई (caṛhāī)

2. a day of the week
3. occasion, time

   Synonyms: (more common) बार (bār), दफ़ा (dafā)

   दस वार

   das vār

   on ten occasions, ten times

• वार करना (vār karnā)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “वार”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वार”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “वार”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɾ/

From Sanskrit पात (pāta, “attack”).

वार • (vār) m

1. attack

   Synonyms: हल्ला (hallā), प्रहार (prahār)

वार • (vār) m

1. a day of the week

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “वार”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “वार”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑ́ː.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑː.ɾɐ/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. Alternative form of वाल (vāla, “the tail of an animal”)

From the root वृ (vṛ).

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. keeping back, restraining
2. anything which covers or surrounds or restrains, a cover
3. anything which causes an obstruction, a gate, doorway
4. anything enclosed or circumscribed in space or time, especially an appointed place
5. the time fixed or appointed for anything
6. choice
7. anything chosen or exquisite, goods, treasure

Probably from वर (vara, “choosing”).^[1]

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. a moment, occasion, opportunity
2. a multitude, quantity
3. an arrow
4. a prickly chaff flower (Achyranthes aspera)
5. the turn of a day (under the regency of a planet)
6. a day of the week

• Assamese: বাৰ (bar)
• Bengali: বার (bar)
• Gujarati: વાર (vār)
• Hindi: बार (bār)
• Marathi: वार (vār)
• Odia: ବାର (bāra)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਾਰ (vār)

  Shahmukhi script: وار (vār)

• Pali: vāra
• Romani: var
• → Kannada: ವಾರ (vāra)
• → Khmer: ពារ (piə), វារ (viə)
• → Malayalam: വാരം (vāraṁ)
• → Tamil: வாரம் (vāram)
• → Telugu: వారం (vāraṁ)
• → Thai: วาร (waan)
• → Urdu: بار (bār), وار (vār)

वार • (vā́ra) stem, n

1. a vessel for holding spirituous liquor
2. a particular artificial poison

Borrowed from South Dravidian I, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian I *wāẓay. Compare Malayalam വാഴ (vāḻa).

वार • (vā́ra) stem, m

1. plantain tree

• Monier Williams (1899) “वार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 943.