उत्तर

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उत्तर (uttara).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʊt̪.t̪əɾ/, , /uːt̪.t̪əɾ/,

उत्तर • (uttar) m (Urdu spelling اُتر)

1. reply, answer

   Synonym: जवाब (javāb)

   इस उत्तर ने हमें निराश कर दिया।

   is uttar ne hamẽ nirāś kar diyā.

   This reply disappointed us.

2. north (cardinal direction)

compass points:  ^[edit]

पश्चिमोत्तर (paścimottar)	उत्तर (uttar)	पूर्वोत्तर (pūrvottar)
पश्चिम (paścim)		पूर्व (pūrv)
दक्षिण-पश्चिम (dakṣiṇ-paścim)	दक्षिण (dakṣiṇ)	दक्षिण-पूर्व (dakṣiṇ-pūrv)

उत्तर • (uttar) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling اُتر)

1. north, northern

   Antonym: दक्षिण (dakṣiṇ)

   वह उत्तर-पूर्व एशिया जाना चाहता है।

   vah uttar-pūrv eśiyā jānā cāhtā hai.

   He wants to go to north-east Asia.

2. (in compounds) following, after, subsequent

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “उत्तर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “उत्तर”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उत्तर (uttara).

• IPA^(key):

उत्तर • (uttar) (Latin script uttor, Kannada script ಉತ್ತರ್)

1. north

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• Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017) IndoWordNet‎

Marathi Wikipedia has an article on:

उत्तर दिशा

Wikipedia ^mr

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उत्तर (uttara).

• IPA^(key): /ut̪.t̪əɾ/

उत्तर • (uttar)

1. northern

उत्तर • (uttar) f

1. north

उत्तर • (uttar) n

1. answer, reply

• प्रश्न (praśna, “question”)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “उत्तर”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उत्तर (uttara).

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: उत्तर्

उत्तर • (uttar)

1. north
2. answer, reply

   उत्तर-कापी  ―  uttar-kāpī  ―  answer-sheet

3. argument

• “उत्तर”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎, Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
• Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “उत्तर”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar

उत्तर

1. Devanagari script form of uttara

उत्तर n

1. Devanagari script form of uttara

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /út.tɐ.ɾɐ/,
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ut̪.t̪ɐ.ɾɐ/,

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *útˢtaras, from Proto-Indo-European *údteros (“higher; later”). Equivalent to उद्- (ud-) +‎ -तर (-tara). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὕστερος (hústeros, “latter”), Pashto استرۍ (ustərai).^[1]

उत्तर • (úttara) stem

1. upper, higher, loftier
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.50.10:

     उद्व॒यं तम॑स॒स्परि॒ ज्योति॒ष्पश्य॑न्त॒ उत्त॑रम्।
     दे॒वं दे॑व॒त्रा सूर्य॒मग॑न्म॒ ज्योति॑रुत्त॒मम्॥

     údvayáṃ támasaspári jyótiṣpáśyanta úttaram.
     deváṃ devatrā́ sū́ryamáganma jyótiruttamám.

     Looking upon the loftier light above the darkness we have come
     To Sūrya, God among the Gods, the light that is most excellent.

2. better, superior
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.86.11:

     इ॒न्द्रा॒णीमा॒सु नारि॑षु सु॒भगा॑म॒हम॑श्रवम्।
     न॒ह्य॑स्या अप॒रं च॒न ज॒रसा॒ मर॑ते॒ पति॒र्विश्व॑स्मा॒दिन्द्र॒ उत्त॑रः॥

     indrāṇī́māsú nā́riṣu subhágāmahámaśravam.
     nahyàsyā aparáṃ caná jarásā márate pátirvíśvasmādíndra úttaraḥ.

     So I have heard Indrāṇī being called most fortunate among these women,
     For never shall her Consort die in future time through length of days. Superior is Indra to all.

3. later, subsequent, following, latter
4. north direction

While using the term in sense of "better", always ablative case is used for the term which is better than something.

compass points:  ^[edit]

पश्चिमोत्तर (paścimottara)	उत्तर (uttara)	ईशान (īśāna)
पश्चिम (paścima)		पूर्व (pūrva)
दक्षिणपश्चिम (dakṣiṇapaścima)	दक्षिण (dakṣiṇa)	दक्षिणपूर्व (dakṣiṇapūrva)

उत्तर • (úttara) stem, n

1. "subsequent speech", an answer, reply

• Bengali: উত্তর (uttor)
• → Hindi: उत्तर (uttar)
• → Kannada: ಉತ್ತರ (uttara)
• → Malay: utara, utară (1924-1972)
  • → Indonesian: utara
• → Malayalam: ഉത്തര (uttara)
• → Marathi: उत्तर (uttar)
• Pali: uttara
  • → Burmese: ဥတ္တရ (utta.ra.)
  • → Khmer: ឧត្តរ (ʼutdɑɑ)
  • → Thai: อุดร (ù-dɔɔn)
• → Punjabi: ਉੱਤਰ (uttar)
• Rohingya: uttor, utor
• Helu Prakrit: 𑀉𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀭 (uttara)
  • Dhivehi: އުތުރު (uturu)
• → Tamil: உத்தரவு (uttaravu)

उद्- (ud-, “over, above”) +‎ तॄ (tṝ, “to cross”).

उत्तर • (úttara) stem

1. crossing over^[2]
2. to be crossed^[2]