ہیر

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Kashmiri[edit]

Perso-Arabic ہیر (hyr)
Devanagari हेर (hēr)
Sharada

Noun[edit]

ہیر (hērf

  1. a ladder
  2. a staircase, a flight of stairs

Urdu[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀳𑀻𑀭 (hīra), from Sanskrit हीर (hīra).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ہیر (hīrm (Hindi spelling हीर)

  1. diamond
  2. essence, elemental part, pith, gist
  3. vigour, energy

Proper noun[edit]

ہیر (hīrf (Hindi spelling हीर)

  1. Heer, the female tragic lover from a classical Punjabi romantic legend
  2. (by extension) a tragic lover

References[edit]

  • ہیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہیر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ہیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • ہیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.