सर

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /səɾ/,

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Borrowed from Classical Persian سر (sar). Cognate with Sanskrit शिरस् (śiras). Doublet of सिर (sir, “head”) and सिरा (sirā, “beginning”).

सर • (sar) m (Urdu spelling سر)

1. (anatomy) head

   Synonym: सिर (sir)

2. top, tip, point
3. head, chief
4. (figuratively) conquer, subdue, overpower, win
5. one of the four top-valued playing cards

Borrowed from Sanskrit सर (sara).

सर • (sar) m (Urdu spelling سر)

1. arrow

Borrowed from Sanskrit सरस् (saras).

सर • (sar) m (Urdu spelling سر)

1. lake

Borrowed from English sir.

सर • (sar) m (Urdu spelling سر)

1. sir

Borrowed from Sanskrit शर (śara)

सर • (sar) m (Urdu spelling سر)

1. Alternative spelling of शर (śar)

सर m

1. Devanagari script form of sara (“arrow”)
2. Devanagari script form of sara (“sound”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 2; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     तत्थ अक्खरेसु अकारादीसु ओदन्ता अत्थ सरा नाम होन्ति।

     Tattha akkharesu akārādīsu odantā aṭṭha sarā nāma honti.

     There amongst the letters are eight vowels, namely starting with 'a' and ending with 'o'

   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 18; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     सरम्‌हा परस्स ब्यञ्जनस्स द्वेभावो होति ठाने ।

     saram‌hā parassa byañjanassa dvebhāvo hoti ṭhāne.

     There is doubling of a consonant after a vowel when appropriate.

सर m or n

1. Devanagari script form of sara, which is alternative citation form of सरस् (saras, “lake”)

From the root सृ (sṛ, “to run; glide”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ.ɾɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɐ.ɾɐ/

सर • (sará) stem

1. springer, runner
2. flower, speeder, glider, mover

सर • (sará) stem, m

1. sound
2. arrow
3. water