प्रहर

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Compound of प्र- (pra-, “forwards”) +‎ हर (hara, “taking, receiving”).

प्रहर • (prahara) stem, m

a division of time (about 3 hours = 6 or 7 Nāḍikās; lit. ‘stroke’, scil. on a gong)
the 8th part of a day, a watch

Masculine a-stem declension of प्रहर (prahara)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	प्रहरः praharaḥ	प्रहरौ / प्रहरा¹ praharau / praharā¹	प्रहराः / प्रहरासः¹ praharāḥ / praharāsaḥ¹
Vocative	प्रहर prahara	प्रहरौ / प्रहरा¹ praharau / praharā¹	प्रहराः / प्रहरासः¹ praharāḥ / praharāsaḥ¹
Accusative	प्रहरम् praharam	प्रहरौ / प्रहरा¹ praharau / praharā¹	प्रहरान् praharān
Instrumental	प्रहरेण prahareṇa	प्रहराभ्याम् praharābhyām	प्रहरैः / प्रहरेभिः¹ praharaiḥ / praharebhiḥ¹
Dative	प्रहराय praharāya	प्रहराभ्याम् praharābhyām	प्रहरेभ्यः praharebhyaḥ
Ablative	प्रहरात् praharāt	प्रहराभ्याम् praharābhyām	प्रहरेभ्यः praharebhyaḥ
Genitive	प्रहरस्य praharasya	प्रहरयोः praharayoḥ	प्रहराणाम् praharāṇām
Locative	प्रहरे prahare	प्रहरयोः praharayoḥ	प्रहरेषु prahareṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Monier Williams (1899) “प्रहर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 700/3, 701/1.