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برف

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See also: برق and ترف

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian برف (barf).

Noun

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برف (berf)

  1. snow, the frozen state of water that falls as precipitation
    Synonyms: ثلج (selc), قار (kar)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: berf

Further reading

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Persian

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Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fa

Etymology

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From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫 (ʿpl /⁠wafr⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (snow). Compare Baluchi برپ (barp), Central Kurdish بەفر (befr), Northern Kurdish berf, Pashto واوره (wāwra), Wakhi ورف (warf).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? barf
Dari reading? barf
Iranian reading? barf
Tajik reading? barf
  • Audio (Iran):(file)
  • Rhymes: -arf

Noun

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Dari برف
Iranian Persian
Tajik барф

برف (barf)

  1. snow
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Descendants

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Punjabi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَرَف (baraff (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਫ਼)

  1. snow
  2. ice

Declension

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Declension of برف
singular plural
direct بَرَف (baraf) بَرَفاں (barafāṉ)
oblique بَرَف (baraf) بَرَفاں (barafāṉ)
vocative بَرَفے (barafe) بَرَفو (barafo)
ablative بَرَفوں (barafoṉ) بَرَفاں (barafāṉ)
locative بَرَفی (barafī) بَرَفِیں (barafīṉ)
instrumental بَرَفِیں (barafīṉ) بَرَفے (barafe)

Further reading

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  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “برف”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • ਬਰਫ਼”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Sindhi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَرفَ (barfaf (Devanagari बर्फ़)

  1. snow
  2. ice

References

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  • Khānu, Balocu (19601988) “بَرفَ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “بَرْفَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society

Southwestern Fars

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Noun

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برف (barf)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) snow

Urdu

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بَرْف (barf, snow) laying beneath trees in a valley in Gilgit-Baltistan

Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَرْف (barff (Hindi spelling बर्फ़)

  1. ice
  2. snow
  3. (figurative) the cold, frigid
  4. (figurative) white, shining

Declension

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Declension of برف
singular plural
direct بَرْف (barf) بَرْفیں (barfẽ)
oblique بَرْف (barf) بَرْفوں (barfõ)
vocative بَرْف (barf) بَرْفو (barfo)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “برف”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 247
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “برف”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 147
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 109
  • برف”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “برف”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 243
  • برف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.