شور

See also: سؤر, سور, سؤز, and سوز

Khalaj

Adjective

شور (şôr, şûor)

1. Arabic spelling of şôr, şûor (“salty”)

Khowar

Etymology

From Sanskrit शत (śata), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare Hindi सौ (sau), Urdu سو (sau), Gujarati સો (so), Assamese শ (xo).

Numeral

شور (šor)

1. hundred

References

• Elena Bashir, Maula Nigah, Rahmat Karim Baig (2005) “شور”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio, Chicago: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago.

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃoːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃoːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃoːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃoːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃʊːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃuːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃɵɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	šōr
Dari reading?	šōr
Iranian reading?	šur
Tajik reading?	šür

Etymology 1

From Parthian 𐫢𐫇𐫡 (šwr /⁠šōr⁠/); compare with Middle Persian [script needed] (swr /⁠sōr⁠/). cognate with Northern Kurdish şor, sûr, Central Kurdish سوێر (swêr), Baluchi شور (šōr, šowr), Baluchi سور (sowr), Harzani سور (sür) and Pashto ښرنه (x̌arǝ́na, “saline”). Perhaps from Proto-Iranian *sauraH (“salty”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour; salty”).

Adjective

Dari	شور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шӯр

شور • (šur)

1. salty (of taste)

   Coordinate terms: شیرین (širin), تلخ (talx), ترش (torš), تند (tond)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1118:

     او ز بحر عذب آب شور خورد / تا که آب شور او را کور کرد

     u ze bahr-e 'azb âb-e šur xord / tâ ke âb-e šur u-râ kur kard

     He has drunk salt water from the sweet Sea, so that the salt water has made him blind.

Descendants

• → Khalaj: şôr

Etymology 2

Derived from the verb شوریدن (šuridan), شولیدن (šulidan).

Noun

شور • (šur)

1. excitement
2. uproar, clamor
3. Dastgāh-e Šur, one of the seven dastgahs of Persian Music.

Derived terms

• پرشور (por-šur, “passionate, ardent”)

 

Etymology 3

Verb

شور • (šur)

1. present stem form of شستن (šostan, “to wash”)

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian شور (šōr).

Noun

شور • (śor) m (Hindi spelling शोर)

1. noise
2. uproar, clamor

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu شور (šōr).

Noun

شور (šōr)

1. noise
2. uproar, clamor