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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi پیار (pyar) (c. 1611),[1] Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀆𑀭 (piāra), from Sanskrit प्रियकार (priyakāra), compound of प्रिय (priyá) + कार (kāra).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
پْیار or پِیار • (pyār or piyār) m (Hindi spelling प्यार or पियार)
- love, romance
- Synonyms: عِشْق ('iśq), پْریم (prem), مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), اُلْفَت (ulfat)
- love, friendship
- Synonym: مُحَبَّت (muhabbat)
- affection; attachment (commonly with inanimate objects, or connoted with feelings)
- (euphemistic) a kiss (usually for a child)
- caress (ie. act of endearment)
- grace, respect (from an elder)
- grace, compassion, benevolence
- (rare, often in the vocative) beloved, dear
Declension
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plural
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پِیار (piyār)
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پِیار (piyār)
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| oblique
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پِیار (piyār)
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پِیاروں (piyārõ)
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| vocative
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پِیار (piyār)
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پِیارو (piyāro)
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Derived terms
References
- ^ “پیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “priyakāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 503
Further reading
More information
- “پیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “پيار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “پيار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 389
- John Shakespear (1834) “پیار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC