گوهر
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See also: گوہر
Persian
Alternative forms
- گهر (gohar)
Etymology
From Middle Persian gwhl (/gōhr, gōhar/, “substance, essence; jewel”), from Old Persian *gauθra, *gavaθra.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | gawhar |
| Dari reading? | gawhar |
| Iranian reading? | gowhar |
| Tajik reading? | gavhar |
Noun
| Dari | گوهر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | гавҳар |
گوهر • (gowhar) (plural گوهرها (gowhar-hâ))
- jewel, gem
- Synonym: جواهر (javâher)
- pearl
- Synonym: مروارید (morvârid)
- essence
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3529:
- هل مرا تا پردهها را بر درم
تا چو خورشیدی بتابد گوهرم- hil marā tā parda-hā rā bar daram
tā čō xwarshēd bitābad gawhar-am - Let me be, that I may rend the curtains asunder,
that my (spiritual) substance may shine forth like a sun
- hil marā tā parda-hā rā bar daram
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: جَوْهَر (jawhar) (see there for further descendants)
- ⇒ Arabic: جَوَاهِر pl (jawāhir) (see there for further descendants)
- → Azerbaijani: gövhər
- → Bashkir: гәүһәр (gəwhər)
- → Chagatai: گوهر
- Uzbek: gavhar
- → Georgian: გოარი (goari)
- → Gujarati: ગૌહર (gauhar)
- → Hindustani:
- Urdu: گَوہَر (gauhar)
- → Kazakh: гауһар (gauhar)
- → Middle Mongol: ᠭᠥᠭᠠᠷ (göɣar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: گوهر (gevher)
- Turkish: gevher
- → Punjabi:
- Shahmukhi script: گَوہَر (gauhar)
- → Sindhi: گوهَرُ
- → Turkmen: göwher
Proper noun
| Dari | گوهر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | Гавҳар |
گوهر • (gowhar)
- a female given name, Gohar or Gowhar, from Middle Persian
Descendants
Further reading
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گوهر”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1057a–1059b