بھور
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Sanskrit *भोला (bholā, “dawn”).[1] Cognate with Bengali ভোর (bhōr), Gujarati ભોર (bhor), Nepali भोर (bhor), Punjabi ਭੋਰ (bhor) / بھور (bhor), and Odia ଭୋର (bhora).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bʱoːɾ/
- Rhymes: -oːɾ
Noun
[edit]بھور • (bhor) f (Hindi spelling भोर)
- dawn, sunrise, daybreak
- 1981, پَرْوِین شَاکِر [parvīn śākir], صَد بَرْگ [sad barg], Asadullah Ghalib, page 35:
- بھور سمے تک جس نے ہمیں باہم الجھائے رکھا / وہ البیلی ریشم ایسی بات گزر گئی جاناں
- bhor same tak jis ne hamẽ bāham uljhāe rakhā vo albelī reśam aisī bāt guzar gaī jānā̃
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | بھور (bhor) | بھوریں (bhorẽ) |
| oblique | بھور (bhor) | بھوروں (bhorõ) |
| vocative | بھور (bhor) | بھورو (bhoro) |
References
[edit]- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*bhōlā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 549
Further reading
[edit]- “بھور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “بھور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بهور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “بهور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “بھور”, 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
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “بھور”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.