کنار

See also: كنار

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (knʾl /⁠kanār⁠/, “side, edge”), from a metathesis of کران (karân, “border, edge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ka.ˈnɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.nɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.nɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰä.nɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰä.nɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲe.nɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.nɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	kanār
Dari reading?	kanār
Iranian reading?	kenâr
Tajik reading?	kanor

Noun

کِنار • (kenâr)

1. side
2. edge; limit; boundary

   Synonyms: حد (hadd), کران (karân)

3. shore, coast

   Synonym: ساحل (sâhel)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 3881:

     علم دریاییست بی‌حد و کنار
     طالب علمست غواص بحار

     ilm daryāyē-st bē-hadd u kanār
     tālib-i ilm ast ğawwās-i bihār

     Knowledge is an ocean without bounds or shore: the seeker of knowledge is the diver in [those] seas.

4. (poetic) embrace, hug; (metonymically) chest, bosom

   Synonym: آغوش (âğuš)

   بوس و کنار ― bus o kenâr ― kissing and embracing

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 93:

     دست بگشاد و کنارانش گرفت
     همچو عشق اندر دل و جانش گرفت

     dast bugšād u kinārān-aš girift
     hamčō išq andar dil u jān-aš girift

     He opened his hands and clasped him to his breast and received him, like love, into his heart and soul.

Derived terms

• کناره (kenâre)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: কিনার (kinār)
• → Gujarati: કિનાર (kinār)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: किनार (kinār)

  Urdu: كنار (kinār)

• → Kazakh: қанар (qanar)
  • → Russian: кана́р (kanár)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: كنار (känar)
  • Azerbaijani: kənar
  • Ottoman Turkish: كنار (kenar)
    • Turkish: kenar
    • → Arabic: كَنَار (kanār, “a border in architecture”)
    • → Bulgarian: кена́р (kenár, “a kind of lace; border, end”)
    • → Macedonian: ќенар (ḱenar, “a kind of lace”)
    • → Romanian: chenar
    • → Serbo-Croatian: (“a kind of lace; border, end”)

      Cyrillic script: ћѐна̄р

      Latin script: ćènār

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਕਿਨਾਰ (kinār)

  Shahmukhi: كنار (kinār)

• → Uzbek: qanor
  • → Russian: кана́р (kanár)

Preposition

کِنارِ • (kenâr-e)

1. next to, besides

   آیا می‌توانیم کنار پنجره بنشینیم؟ (literary)

   âyâ mi-tavânim kenâr-e panjere be-nešinim?

   Can we sit next to the window?

   می‌شه کنار پنجره بشینیم؟ (colloquial)

   mi-še kenâr-e panjere be-šinim?

   Can we sit next to the window?

Adverb

کِنار • (kenâr)

1. aside

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kunār). Compare Classical Syriac ܟܢܪܐ (kənārā), Old Armenian քնարուկ (kʻnaruk), Late Koine Greek κόνναρος (kónnaros), Iranian borrowings. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

کنار • (konâr)

1. Ziziphus, especially of species Ziziphus spina-christi

References

•  Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎^[1] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 19–20 fn. 17