अब्र

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ابر (abr), from Middle Persian ʾbl, ʾp̄l (abr, “cloud”), from Proto-Iranian *abráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *abʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrós. Doublet of अभ्र (abhra).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /əb.ɾᵊ/, [ɐb.ɾᵊ]

Noun

अब्र • (abra) m (Urdu spelling ابر)

1. (chiefly poetic) cloud

   Synonyms: बादल (bādal), मेघ (megh), अभ्र (abhra)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “अब्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press