خوار

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Arabic[edit]

Root
خ و ر (ḵ-w-r)

Adjective[edit]

خَوَّار (ḵawwār) (feminine خَوَّارَة (ḵawwāra), common plural خُور (ḵūr))

  1. flaccid, floppy, flabby, feeble

Declension[edit]

Noun[edit]

خُوَار (ḵuwārm

  1. verbal noun of خَارَ (ḵāra, to bellow, to low)

Declension[edit]

Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

خوار (har, hor)

  1. alternative form of خور (hor)

References[edit]

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خوار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 1958

Persian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? xwār
Dari reading? xār
Iranian reading? xâr
Tajik reading? xor

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hw'l /⁠xᵛār⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *ātra- / *āθra- (spirit, breath), of unknown further origin.[1]

Adjective[edit]

خوار (xvâr)

  1. (archaic) easy
  2. mean, abject

Etymology 2[edit]

See below.

Verb[edit]

خوار (xvâr)

  1. present stem form of خواردن (to eat, to consume)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 324

Ushojo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Persian خوار (xvâr).

Adjective[edit]

خوار (xvār)

  1. weak
  2. vulnerable