پیار

See also: پیاز, تیار, پيار, and بئار

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi پیار (piyār /⁠pyār⁠/), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀆𑀭 (piāra), from Sanskrit प्रियकार (priyakāra), compound of प्रिय (priyá) +‎ कार (kāra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɪ.jɑːɾ/, /pjɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

Noun

پیار • (piyār or pyār) m (Hindi spelling प्यार)

1. love, romance

   Synonyms: عِشْق ('iśq), پْریم (prem), مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), اُلْفَت (ulfat)

2. love, friendship

   Synonym: مُحَبَّت (muhabbat)

3. affection; attachment (commonly with inanimate objects, or connoted with feelings)
4. (euphemistic) a kiss (usually for a child)
5. caress (ie. act of endearment)
6. grace, respect (from an elder)
7. grace, compassion, benevolence
8. (rare) beloved, dear (often vocative)

Declension

Declension of پیار
	singular	plural
direct	پِیار (piyār)	پِیار (piyār)
oblique	پِیار (piyār)	پِیاروں (piyārō̃)
vocative	پِیار (piyār)	پِیارو (piyārō)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• پِیارا m (piyārā, “beautiful”, adjective)

Further reading

• “پیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “پيار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “پيار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 389
• John Shakespear (1834) “پیار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “priyakāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 503